1910] Fernald and Wiegand,— Botanizing in Maine 117 
earis Goldie; and there are many other near neighbors of these plants 
in the marly shores and bogs of Gaspé,— Salix candida Flügge, S. 
pseudo-myrsinites Anders., Drosera anglica Huds., Parnassia parviflora 
DC., Pinguicula vulgaris L., &c.— which may with good hope be 
sought in the calcareous districts of Aroostook County. 
On reaching the station at New Limerick we found the gravel about 
the railroad vard abounding in a plant which has been known as a 
weed about Lake 'l'emiscouata in Quebec since 1887 ! but which was 
quite new to our experience:— Zlsholtzia Patrini (Lepechin) Garcke, 
a delicately lemon-scented mint adventive or introduced from Asia. 
Near by in the thicket, as if indigenous, were gigantic plants of Iva 
vanthiifolia Nutt., a plant of the West which is becoming naturalized 
in New England. 
Caribou Bog in Crystal is too well known to many botanists to 
demand special description, except for the very unusual association 
of plants which is found there. It is a drvish marly bog with larches, 
spruces, and Arbor Vitae creeping in from the edges. Near the 
margin Betula pumila L. and Lonicera oblongifolia (Goldie) Hook. 
mingle with more widely known shrubs,— Myrica Gale L., Pyrus 
melanocarpa (Michx.) Willd., Rhamnus alnifolia L'Her., Lonicera 
caerulea L., var. villosa (Michx.) T. & G., &c. The open mucky 
spots are carpeted with the sprawling Carex chordorhiza L. f. which 
often seems to have ascended into the bushes by means of its long 
freely branching superficial rootstocks but which more probably has 
been left in these unusual habitats by early freshets, or the whitish green 
tufts of Carex livida (Wahlenb.) Willd.; and in many of these wetter 
spots are fine colonies of Tofieldia glutinosa (Michx.) Pers. with red 
capsules, Parnassia caroliniana L., Utricularia cornuta Michx., and 
Lobelia Kalmii L.; while still more locally are found beds of Juncus 
stygius L., var. americanus Buchenau, and Drosera linearis Goldie. 
In the slight shade of the larches or in the open are great clumps of 
Phragmites communis Trin., scattered plants of Triglochin maritima 
L., and carpets of Pyrola asarifolia Michx., var. incarnata (Fisch.) 
Fernald, mingled with commoner northern bog plants such as Carex 
vaginata Tausch, Cypripedium parviflorum Salisb., C. hirsutum Mill., 
Habenaria hyperborea (L.) R. Br., Spiranthes Romanzoffiana Cham., 
Valeriana uliginosa (T. & G.) Rydberg, &e. The open areas are 
comparatively dry and one can walk with ease over the dense carpet of 
1 John I. and Alice B, Northrop, Bull. Torr. Bot. Cl. xvii. 29 (1890). 
