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Meetings of the Vermont Botanical Club. — The twenty- 

 first annual field meeting of the Vermont Botanical Club was held at 

 St. Johnsbury, July 6-10, 1915, in conjunction with the Vermont Bird 

 Club. The weather was fine with the exception of one day and trips 

 were made to Danville, Barton which lies at the junction of the 

 Connecticut and Passumpsic Rivers, Lunenburg and some rich woods 

 on the outskirts of the village. 



Near Danville a fine station for the ragged robin, Lychnis Flos- 

 cuculi, was found. The small toadflax, Linaria minor, was growing 

 along the railroad at Danville station. Not far from here two wooded 

 swamps were visited. In one nothing of special interest was observed, 

 but the other had quite an abundance of that rare orchid, Calypso 

 borcalis. This unfortunately was past its blooming season, but the 

 twayblade, Listera convallarioides, and the rein orchis, Habenaria 

 obtusata, were just in their prime and in abundance. The showy and 

 yellow lady's slippers, Cypripedium hirsutum and C. parviflorum, var. 

 pubescens, were also growing there with many other plants of interest. 



Two swamps between Danville and St. Johnsbury which were 

 explored had plenty of the Habenaria obtusata but no Listera. The 

 one-flowered pyrola, Moneses uniflora grew here in the greatest pro- 

 fusion however and the twin-flower, Linnaea borealis var. americana 

 rioted over everything on the ground. 



At Barton the specially interesting plants were the false asphodel, 

 Tofieidia tjlutinosa, and the rein orchis, Habenaria flar a, on the wet shore 

 of the Connecticut, the horned pondweed, Zannichellia palustris, var. 

 peduncuJata, in a small pool in the rock ten or twelve feet above the 

 surface of the water at the junction of the two rivers and the bearberry, 

 Arctostaphylos I'm-ursi, on the high ground back of the river. 



At Lunenburgh it was too wet after the storm of the day before to 

 climb the mountain to see the station for the goldenrod, Soiidago 

 Cutleri, and nothing of special interest was seen. 



The twenty-first annual winter meeting of the Vermont Botanical 

 Club was held at Rutland, January 21 and 22nd, 1916, in conjunction 

 with the Vermont Bird Club. Twelve botanical papers were read and 

 discussed. The more important were: "Notes on my Trip to Cali- 

 fornia," by Dr. Ezra Brainerd of Middlebury; "A Study of Light in 

 Forests," by Prof. George P. Burns of the University of Vermont, 

 Burlington; " Germination of Pollen of hybrid Blackberries," by 

 A. K. Pcitersen, University of Vermont; and "Additions and Correc- 

 tions to the Vermont Flora," by W. W. Eggleston, of Washington. 



A very interesting lecture was given Friday evening by Prof. 

 George P. Burns on "The Use of native Trees and Shrubs in Land- 

 scape Design," a paper well illustrated by a series of excellent lantern- 

 slides. 



The two Clubs have now practically united, and the officers of both 

 are as follows: President, Dr. Ezra Brainerd of Middlebury; Vice- 



