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JOURNAL OF 



THE NEW ENGLAND BOTANICAL CLUB 



Vol. 18. April, 1916. No. 208. 



ADDITIONAL NOTES ON RHODODENDRON MAXIMUM 

 IN NEW HAMPSHIRE. 



Harold St. John. 



Prof. Farlow's recent article recording the occurrence of Rhodo- 

 dendron maximum L. between Mt. Chocorua and Mt. Paugus ' immedi- 

 ately called up the memory of my experiences with this plant in this 

 immediate region. I wish here to put these on record. 



During the summer of 1908, Mr. Piper, the proprietor of a hotel 

 in Albany, New Hampshire, the Piper House, as it was then called, 

 told me about a nearby patch of the Great Laurel. As soon as w T e 

 could arrange the trip, he drove my mother and me to Chase Farm, 

 a vantage point in the township of Albany, which is familiar to tourists. 

 From here, following Mr. Piper's directions, we crossed the pasture 

 on the opposite side of the road from Chase Farm and started into the 

 woods in a westerly direction. After topping a wooded ridge, we slid 

 down a steep bank and made our way across a thickly wooded swamp. 

 On the opposite bank, by climbing up through a lumber slashing, we 

 found a wood road and followed its winding course up the hillside. 

 When we had travelled about a mile from Chase Farm, we left the 

 wood road at a place where Habenaria Ilookcri Torr. was abundant 

 and turned to the right through the woods. On a north facing slope 

 below an intervening cliff, we found the Rhododendron maximum. 

 The trees, fifteen feet in height, made a solid stand over an acre of 

 ground. It was so late in the season that we found but a single, 

 undersized, belated flower. 



« Rhodoba, xviii. 25-26 (1916). 



