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but new seedlings are springing up, and we may hope that it will 
long remain as one of the many attractions of the beautiful town 
which J)ears so many rich historical associations. The tree growth 
around is sparse, composed mostly of Piniis rigida with some 
Quercus coccinea and Betnla alba. The Corema covers the position 
.so thoroughly that there is room for little other undergrowth, but 
occasional plants of Gayhissada resinosa^ Vaccmium vacillans^ Comp- 
ionia asplenifoUa and Baptisia tinctoria are seen. 
Mr. Watson informed us that he had also seen the Corema near 
Truro, Cape Cod, and near one of the coves of Buzzard Bay. 
4. ^^//^, Afa/W.— In 1840, Mr. W.Gambell, a pupil of Nuttall, fur- 
nished to Dr. Gray specimens of Corema gathered in the spring of 1839 
on the rocky banks of the Kennebec in the neighborhood of Bath." 
Smce then little seems to have been known of this locality. On the 
5th of August, of this year, I visited Bath for the purpose of mak- 
ing some search in that vicinity. Bad weather shortened my visit 
iind prevented me from examining the banks of the Kennebec; but 
a few hours spent upon the high grounds west of the city led me to 
a second range of hills covered with a dense young growth of trees, 
much of it white pine. On the higher part of the ridge, where the 
granitic rocks crop out into bare ledges some acres in extent, I 
found a considerable quantity of the Corema, perhaps in all twenty 
patches, all within the limit of a few rods. The rock contains a 
large proportion of quartz, and the scanty soil showed much silex. 
Here the tree growth was Pinus rigida in scattered, stunted exam- 
ples, with some few small trees of Betula alba. As this locality was 
not near the banks of the Kennebec, but two miles west of them, I 
was at first inclined to believe it new, but I have since been in- 
formed that Prof. Goodell had collected the plant, probably at the 
same point, and also on the eastern bank of the river. 
S- Isle an Hatit, Mai/ie ^Thh is the outermost island in Penob- 
scot Bay, about six miles in length, two and a half miles in width, 
the central ridge rising to a height of 400 to 450 feet, being the 
f^ighest island upon the coast except the mountainous one of 
Mount Desert. It is mostly wooded, but has on its northwesterly 
side a scattered village of about 200 inhabitants, who live upon the 
produce of the sea, and it is said that the first horse seen upon the 
island was landed only two months ago. The island has hitherto 
been rather inaccessible, but will doubtless soon become a summer 
^soft and be made more easy of approach. The existence of 
Corema here was first discovered by A. Young, Jr., a student of 
Bangor, who communicated the plant to Dr. Gray in October, 1847, 
^r. Young found it upon the high barren summit of the island, m 
considerable abundance, associated with Potentilla trtdentaia. I 
visited the island July 2rst and 22d, 1884, and in the first house I 
^ntered it was my good fortune to meet an accomplished botanist, 
Mrs. Flora E. Haines of Bangor, who had spent several summers 
here and whose familiarity with the topography, botany and local 
history of the island relieved me from the loss of time and the pos- 
sible failure which might have attended the hurried visit of a per- 
fect stranger. Under her guidance the summit of the island was 
