The American Botanist 



VOL. XVI JOLIET, ILL., AUGUST, 1910 No. 3 



"^um/ner e66s, each day that folloivs 

 kJs a feflex from on high, 

 Kjendlng to the danlisome hollows <- oRARY 



Where the frosts of winter lie," .' .1^ .^.^J^*^ 



—Wordsworth . 



iiOTANICAL 

 <iA&DEN. 



SOME RARE VERMONT PLANTS. 



By Leston a. Wheeler. 



/^NE morning the latter part of July with my faithful horse 

 ^-^ I left our Townshend home and drove up through the 

 beautiful valley of West River to Jamaica. Here we met our 

 friend, and proceeded on, over the hills, to Cold Pond, a fair 

 sized sheet of water lying in a remote corner of the town. 

 West River valley is not only beautiful but it is interesting, 

 especially to the botanical student, as along its shores are to be 

 found some of the rarer Vermont plants. Here is seen in great 

 abundance burnet (Poferium canadensis) which is found no- 

 where else in the state, so far as the writer knows, sand cherry 

 (Prunus pumila) found elsewhere only in the Lake Cham- 

 plain and Connecticut river valle3^s, billberry (Vaccinium 

 caespitosum) reported from Washington and Mt. Mansfield's 

 Chin, and tubercled orchis (Habenaria flava) common only 

 in favored haunts. 



We left our horse in a friendly barn at Winhall Station 

 and took our press, vasculum, kodak and lunch and tramped 

 the remaining mile to our destination. We were delayed 

 somewhat at the depot by several railroad immigrants among 

 which were carpet weed {Mollugo verticillata) , tumble 

 mustard (Sisymbrium alHssimum), and sand spurry 





