198 Rhodora [NOVEMBER 
THE TWENTIETH ANNUAL FIELD MEETING OF THE VERMONT BOTANI- 
CAL CLUB was held at Fairhaven, Thursday, Friday and Saturday, 
July 9, 10 and 11, 1914. Headquarters were at Hotel Allen which 
sets an unexcelled table. Thursday forenoon was spent near the 
village on some of the hills of slate rock and at a small place owned 
by Mr. Ellis, one of the members, who is trying out a great many plants 
of economic value — fruits, nuts, berries, etc., some of which were the 
black walnut, fig, olive, a Physalis which makes a delicious preserve 
sampled by the Club, an Amelanchier with specially fine fruit, various 
garden herbs, etc. 
The afternoon was spent in a cedar swamp, where, besides the usual 
plants of such places, the swamp valerian, Valeriana uliginosa, and 
some hybrid ferns were found. Calypso borealis, however, was sought 
in vain. 
Friday was spent at West Haven about the ponds and cliffs of that 
region. At the ponds were found, among other things, the water 
star-grass Heteranthera dubia and on the cliffs grew luxuriant speci- 
mens of the purple cliff brake, Pellaea atropurpurea, the slender cliff 
brake, Cryptogramma Stelleri, the wall rue spleenwort, As plenium 
Ruta-muraria and the maiden-hair spleenwort, Asplenium Trichomanes. 
Special attention was paid to the blackberries on all the trips. 
Carver's Falls on the Poultney River was to have been the objective 
point Saturday morning but lack of water owing to drought and a new 
dam made conditions unfavorable and instead several of the members 
took a side trip to Lake Bomoseen on their way back to Rutland. 
There was a very good attendance — thirty members being present. 
The weather was perfect and the meeting proved both instructive 
and enjoyable.— NErurE F. FLYNN, Burlington, Vermont. 
Tue CamBRIDGE British FLona.— The first volume of the long- 
awaited Cambridge British Flora ! has come to hand. It is in reality 
Volume II; and as a forerunner of the others of the series is of unusual 
interest to American botanists since, of the recognized British species 
discussed and illustrated (about 130) in the groups covered — Salica- 
ceae to Chenopodiaceae — two-thirds are members of our own flora as 
1 The Cambridge British Flora by C. E. Moss, D. Sc., F. L. S. assisted by specialists 
in certain genera. Illustrated from drawings by E. W. Hunnybun. Vol. II. 
Salicaceae to Chenopodiaceae, small folio, pp. xx + 206, with text-maps and 206 
plates. Cambridge (England) and New York; The Macmillan Co. 1914. $12.50 
net. 
