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pins of our grandmothers, which ran through the ticket under 

 specimen and sheet and back through the ^^^^^t again. '' Sahx 



~ ? Bank of Ammonoosuc, White HiT^ / N. H., H. Little, 



Aug., 1823 ! " Here we have, I doubt not, the oldest herbarium 

 specimen extant of 5. halsamifera. The collections of Drummond 

 and Dr. Richardson, which gave Barratt his types, were made 

 later, though only by a few years, and those of Bourgeau (upon 

 which Andersson founded his S..pyrifolta) belong to our own day 

 I immediately wrote Mr. Pringle, who was at this time giving 

 to the exploration of the White Mountains the same energy and 

 intelligent sharp-sightedness which have since distinguished nis 

 herbonzations in Mexico, telling him what I had found. By 

 return mall came the confident assurance that the plant would be 

 rediscovered, followed in a few days, sure enough, by fresh 

 specimens for verification. 



On June 13th, 1879, Mr. Pringle, in company with Mr. C. E. 

 Faxon, found S. bahainifera on the Saco, near the Crawford 

 House, after having searched for it in vain along the Ammo- 

 noosuc. About a fortnight later, in the same summer, Mr. t" 

 Faxon went over the ground very carefully and "succeeded in 

 finding another clump of females on the south branch of the 

 Ammonoosuc, about three-fourths of a mile from Mr. Pringle s 

 habitat, and a very fine cluster of males on the east branch ot 

 the same stream, about four miles further north, very near the 

 railroad from Fabyan House to the base of Mt. Washmgton. 



As late as 1885 Mr. Faxon writes: "Although I have made 

 frequent visits to the White Mountains since that year, I have not 

 found any other habitats for this species," adding, " The pistillate 

 cluster near Saco Lake and the plant north of Crawfords are in 

 not quite so wet ground. They are both within a few feet of the 

 carriage-road, and I think have been much injured in the winter 

 by being broken down by snow, or by being driven over when 

 partly covered by snow. One is very near a little brook that 

 flows into the Ammonoosuc, and the other near a little pond, 

 originally a mere bog-hole, but now by damming converted into 

 a pond and dignified with the name of * Lake.' The height 01 

 all three localities is about 1,900 feet above the sea." 



It was during this season, 1885, that Mr. Faxon found '' a very 



