1910] Williams,— Flora of Franklin County 169 
our well beloved Oak Island in the Revere marshes. The distant 
view displayed a noble panorama of hills and mountains as far as the 
eve could see. 
It had rained heavily in the early morning and the bushes were very 
wet, so we were unable to explore the cliffs where grows the beautiful 
Clematis verticillaris. I have a specimen of this plant collected here 
in June, 1897, and I was informed that it is not infrequent on the steep 
rocky slides below the summit. 
The afternoon was devoted to historical exploration in old Deerfield, 
and in the old Cemetery we came again upon Vaccinium stamineum, 
unceremoniously taking possession of the graves of early settlers, so 
old that they are no longer cared for and the weeds and brambles are 
thick amongst them. Near the cemetery is the station for the very rare 
Arisaema Dracontium, the green dragon. I have a specimen in my 
herbarium dated June 3d, 1896, which came from a garden in Deer- 
field where a bulb collected here some years before had been propa- 
gated and throve for many years. It has not been seen for some time, 
but then, nobody has looked for it. I hated to leave without investi- 
gation but as our time was limited and as the meadow was very large 
and very wet I reluctantly turned back. The only other station I 
know of in New England for this rare plant is at Weybridge, Vermont, 
where I collected it in 1908. It was abundant there at that time. It 
is said to be found locally in Connecticut. 
On the 18th we started early for the valley of the Green river. 
The route lav at first through the Greenfield meadows and here I 
collected in a field an old acquaintance of. New Hampshire, Camelina 
microcarpa. After driving some miles through the fertile fields and 
prosperous looking farms of the meadows, we entered the woods. 
We were now in Coleraine and the scenery rapidly grew wilder. The 
clear shallow river about one hundred feet wide, from this point north- 
wards flows swiftly between steep hillsides covered with a luxuriant 
growth, deciduous trees predominating. ‘There is room in this narrow 
valley only for the river and the road, which indeed in many places is 
held up by walls built up from the river bed. The many bars and 
alluvial thickets hold out a tempting invitation to be searched, and at 
every bend of the river beautiful views are revealed, enchanting vistas 
of stream and forest, moss covered ledges and fairy brooks plunging 
down the hillsides under dimly lit arches of verdure. It is New Eng- 
land’s hill country at its best and reminded us of river scenery we had 
