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Pinus Banksiana on the Coast of Maine, 



By Edward L. Rand. 



This peculiarly northern species has its province thus de- 

 fined in Professor Sargent's Report on the Forests of North 

 America ; " Bay of Chaleur, New Brunswick, to the southern 

 shores of Hudson's Bay, northwest to the Great Bear Lake, the 

 valley of the Mackenzie River, and the eastern slope of the 

 Rocky Mountains between the fifty-second and sixty-fifth de- 

 grees of north latitude ; south to northern Maine, Ferrisburg, 

 Vt., the southern shores of Lake Michigan and central Minne- 

 sota." Gray's Manual credits it to " N. Maine. N. Michigan 



Wiscons 



In August, 1882, Mr. Frank M. Day, of Philadelphia, 

 showed me an undoubted specimen of this pine which he had 

 found on the summit of Schoodic Mountain, in the town of 

 Gouldsboro, on the eastern side of Frenchman's Bay, a point far 

 to the south of its hitherto accredited province.* Some years 

 passed before it was convenient to gratify my desire of visiting 

 this locality, but in August, 1885, in company with President 

 Eliot of Harvard University, his son, Mr. Charles Eliot, and 

 other friends, I was enabled to accomplish my wish. Landing at 

 a little cove a short distance south of Winter Harbor, Schoodic 

 Mountain lay a mile or more south of us, across a low, thinly 

 wooded, somewhat boggy plain. Wood paths led towards the 

 mountain down along the west coast of Schoodic Peninsula, 

 througli groves of spruce. Following one of these paths for 

 about half a mile, we suddenly came upon the object of our 

 search, before reaching the mountain. It was a straight hand- 

 some tree of at least twenty feet in height, easily recognized by 

 its peculiar dark green, short foliage, and its abundant curved 

 cones. Other trees were soon seen, both large and small, show- 

 ing that this pine is not limited to the mountain, but might con- 

 fidently be expected over the entire peninsula. Proceeding to- 

 wards the mountain we saw here and there more of it. Crossing 

 a well traveled wood road which a pparently traverses the penin- 



*The localUy at Ferrisburg. Vt., quoted by Professor Sarger.t above, on the 

 ciiUlionty ofR. E. Kobin.on. is equally exceptional being in about the same lati- 

 tude as Schoo. ,c Pemn.u a. It .^ well here to add that I have been infoaroed that 

 there IS a s.ng e tree of P,nus Banksiana at Bucksport, IMe., on Perobscol River, 

 a few m.le^ below Bangor. I have never verified thi.s statement, however. 



