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hard labor, we had succeeded in circumnavigating about half the 
pond — which is half a mile long — and were quite ready to go ashore 
and have lunch. 
But the botanizing was good. Not one of the plants noted as 
characteristic of Little Pond was found here, the different conditions 
at the two being well reflected in their floras. On the black mud 
where the boat was drawn up was a mat of Eleocharis olivacea, not 
before reported from Windham County. In the shallower parts of the 
pond was an abundant growth of aquatics — white and yellow water- 
lilies, Brasenia, Nymphoides (sometimes called "fairy lily" in Con- 
necticut), Nejas flexilis, Utricularia vulgaris, var. americana, U. pur- 
purea in abundance and Potamogeton natans, the last two new to the 
county. Near the further shore, slender culms of Scirpus subtermina- 
lis and Eleocharis Robbinsii projected from the water — both likewise 
new to Windham County. Here also were scattered plants of Pon- 
tederia cordata, var. angustifolia. Only the variety was observed in 
the pond itself, though there was an abundance of the typical form 
along the outlet. In the edge of the marginal swamp grew many 
plants of a pretty and unfamiliar Aster, which we managed to collect 
by driving the bow of the boat (if a craft with perfectly interchangeable 
ends can be said to have a bow) as far as possible into the bushes, and 
which, on later investigation, proved to be Aster nemoralis, previously 
collected near Long Pond by Mr. E. B. Harger in June, 1908, but 
not reported because his specimens were too young for certain 
identification. Further along, we picked a single fruiting head of 
Juncus militaris, another addition to the Windham County list. 
Around it were numerous jointed culms which I took to be sterile 
plants of the Juncus. We set about hunting for more flowering 
or fruiting material. Presently Mrs. Weatherby remarked: “Here 
is a flower on one of these things.” I looked around, and probably 
only the limitations of the boat prevented my doing something undig- 
~nified. There is a keenness of pleasure in the finding of a really rare 
plant which one never quite outgrows. And this flower was not that 
of a Juncus, but of an Eleocharis and the thick, jointed culm on which 
it grew could belong only to E. interstincta, a species not only new to 
Connecticut, but known from only three other places in New England. 
If this be boasting, it is boasting of the locality, not of the collectors; 
and it is also an invitation. Only half of Long Pond has been explored; 
when we last saw it, the boat and the half oar were waiting. And 
