120 Rhodora [JUNE 
Maine in the neighborhood of Bath, the famous ship-building town. 
We knew that in West Bath Miss Furbish had a station (one of very 
few in New England) for Rosa acicularis Lindl., var. Bourgeauiana 
Crépin, and that not far from Bath, by Winnegance Creek, was the 
only station in Maine (also discovered by Miss Furbish) for Samolus 
floribundus HBK. 
Arriving at Bath we hired a good horse and genial driver and started 
for Winnegance. The country was rocky and sandy, with Rubus 
villosus Ait., Rhus copallina L., and Vitis Labrusca L. indicating very 
clearly that we were no longer in a boreal region. Upon reaching 
Winnegance we had only a short time to explore and very soon it was 
evident that a most superficial survey of the broad tidal marshes along 
Winnegance Creek would absorb every minute we could give. Here 
indeed were Samolus floribundus HBK., Lophotocarpus spongiosus 
(Engelm.) J. G. Smith and other rare plants of tidal estuaries already 
collected by Miss Furbish. But we were more excited by the unlooked- 
for species: great colonies of Seirpus fluviatilis (Torr.) Gray, higher 
than our heads, and heretofore known from Maine only through an 
unverified report of its occurrence at Perry '; Limosella aquatica L., 
var, tenuifolia (Wolf) Pers. also on the doubtful list as a Maine plant; 
Typha angustifolia L. and Cyperus Nuttallii Eddy, somewhat north- 
east of their supposed limits; and acres of Eleocharis rostellata Torr., 
a species not previously known in Maine, which tripped us up with its 
long wiry arching and “tipping” culms; and many other local plants 
— Eleocharis olivacea Torr. &c.— already known from the region. 
But the greatest prize of the day was a Bidens of the tidal flats, which 
was abundant at and below high-water mark, so that its foliage and 
heads were disagreeably covered with silt and stranded eel-grass. 
This was Bidens hyperborea Greene, a characteristic halophytic species, 
formerly known from Hudson Bay and from river-estuaries and salt 
marshes of the Gaspé Peninsula and recently discussed in RHODORA.” 
This very hurried glimpse at Winnegance Creek and many fleeting 
glimpses of the coastal region about Bath and eastward and again 
toward Brunswick indicated that in these tidal estuaries and on the 
lower reaches of the Androscoggin and the Kennebec and about Merry- 
meeting Bay is a region of great botanical interest, easily reached and 
apparently full of surprises for him who will defy the marsh mos- 
1 Goodale, Agric. and Geol. Me. (1861) 128. 
2 Fernald, RHODORA, x. 201-203 (1908). 
