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truncate, and equal or exceed the palets. P. drachyphylla is really 
intermediate between P. fluitans and P. acutiflora, resembling the 
latter in habit, but at once separated from it by the smaller flow- 
ering scales, which are obtuse and not acuminate as in that species. 
Robinson & Schrenk’s No. 221, collected in a wet meadow at 
St. John’s, Newfoundland, August 7, 1894, appears to be a small 
and simple-panicled form of this; the spikelets are fewer-flowered 
and the flowering scales are slightly longer, sometimes about 
equalling the palet, but otherwise the plant is the same. 
This well-marked species doubtless occurs in other sections, 
but, owing to its strong resemblance in habit and general appear- 
ance to P. acutiflora, it has been overlooked. I should be exceed- 
ingly glad to receive more material. 
Reminiscences of Botanical Rambles in Vermont.* 
By C. G. PRINGLE. 
Erienps: If I can offer to-night for your entertainment only a 
dull and dimly outlined story of my early botanical rambles in the 
summer fields of my native State, let my excuse be that thronging 
memories of treading a thousand desert trails between the Colum- 
bia and the Tehuantepec overlie the recollections of those early 
glad days, 
«« When the feelings were young, and the world was new 
Like the fresh bowers of Eden unfolding to view.” 
I cannot remember the birth of my love for plants. It must 
have been inborn, inherited. And it has been my happy fortune 
all my life to have had appointments to botanical work laid upon 
me, which I have accepted as in the way of destiny, and oppor- 
tunities for such work to open before me, which; improved, have 
led on to wider and wider fields. 3 
My boyish botanizing about home fields, which made me ac- 
quainted with our common plants, may be passed over with bare 
mention, as also the rambles with manual in hand on summer 
we 
* Address delivered before the Vermont Botanical Club. Reprinted from the 
Burlington Daily Free Press, Feb, 9, 1897. 
