Rbodora 
JOURNAL OF 
THE NEW ENGLAND BOTANICAL CLUB 
Vol. 21. April, 1919. No. 244. 
LONG POND. 
C. A. WEATHERBY. 
Pnorrsson FERNALD maintains that there is especial virtue in the 
appellation “Long Pond”’; that any body of water bearing that name 
is pretty sure to harbor, in or about it, desirable plants; and that a 
composite flora of “Long Ponds” would make interesting reading. 
It is as a contribution to such a work that I offer the following account 
of my own particular Long Pond. 
In October, 1916, in the course of a tramp through the woods in the 
extreme northeastern corner of Connecticut, in the town of Thompson, 
Mrs. Weatherby and I noticed a small pond, surrounded by broad 
margins of swamp and producing in its shallower parts a rank growth 
of sedges. It looked good; and we then and there resolved to visit 
it again at a more favorable season for botanizing. 
The immediate region in which it lies consists of low ridges and small, 
flat areas of sand and gravel, presumably the bars and deltas of glacial 
streams. The hollows between them are occupied by swamps and 
by two small ponds, drained by streams which flow sluggishly through 
wide stretches of marsh, full of Peltandra. One of these ponds — 
Little Pond — we had already visited. It has a clean sandy strand, 
only here and there overlaid with a thin deposit of vegetable matter, 
and inhabited by such characteristic plants as Gratiola aurea, Cyperus 
dentatus, Juncus pelocarpus, Elatine minima and, in the more mucky 
places, Hydrocotyle umbellata, Utricularia gibba and Sagittaria Engel- 
manniana. The swamps along its outlet were known to harbor Rosa 
nitida, Rynchospora fusca and Eleocharis tuberculosa! In the maple 
1 The last two species are associated with each other and with Panicum spretum (which also 
grows in Thompson) in at least two other Connecticut swamps. 
