1922] Flynn,—Field Meeting of the Vermont Botanical Club 227 
There has been a question pending for a year of merging the two 
Clubs into one actually as they have been pcratically for some time. 
It was, however, definitely settled at this meeting that they shall be 
kept separate, and thus the Botanical Club keeps its individuality and 
the name that has grown to mean so much to New England botanists. 
Last winter's meeting having been given up, several papers were 
presented at this time, eight new members were voted in and the 
following officers elected: President, Dr. Ezra Brainerd of Middle- 
bury; Vice-President, Harold G. Rugg of Hanover, New Hampshire; 
Secretary-Treasurer, Mrs. Nellie F. Flynn of Burlington; Librarian, 
Lewis H. Flint of Burlington; and Editor of Bulletin, George L. Kirk 
of Rutland. 
Mrs. Davenport and Prof. Burns voiced for the Club their very 
enthusiastic appreciation of the time and labor expended and the 
expert mastery of his subject shown by Dr. Ezra Brainerd in his work 
“The Violets of North America" and its free distribution by the 
Agricultural Department of the University of Vermont. 
Three field excursions were successfully carried out. One of these 
was to the asbestos mine on Belvidere Mountain in Eden to see the 
station for Adiantum pedatum var. aleuticum. This is the first in 
the eastern States for this northern fern. It was discovered by Mrs. 
L. Frances Jolly of Berkshire, Vermont. Her first collection of the 
plant was at the foot of Orford Mountain in Canada not far from the 
Vermont line. Material from this station was identified by Prof. 
Fernald. On being urged to find it in Vermont Mrs. Jolly went to 
Belvidere Mountain as it was in the same range and composed of the 
same kind of rock. Here she found it growing fully exposed in the 
crevices of the asbestos. 
One trip was to Hazen’s Notch where Saxifraga Aizoon grows, and 
a third to a station for the plant which has passed as Polypodium 
vulgare var. cambricum but which Prof. Fernald now calls P. virgin- 
ianum, forma bipinnatifidum. 
The field meeting of 1923 will be held at Bread Loaf Inn in Ripton 
and at Middlebury. The date will probably be June 29 to July 4 or 5. 
The field meeting of 1921 was held at Willoughby Lake with an 
attendance of about thirty and lasted three days. The many notable 
orchids, alpine and bog plants of that fruitful region were all seen, 
but they are so well known to botanists in general that it seems un- 
necessary to enumerate them here.—Mnmns. rr F. Fiynn, Burl- 
ington, Vermont. 
