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sula we reached the gentle northern slope of Schoodic Mountain. 

 Its summit is very similar to the summits of Mt. Desert moun- 

 tains, — bare rock with thickets of alder, Vibiirmtm cassinoides 

 and red oak, — but where I should have looked for dwarfed 

 spruces or for Pinus rigida, I found Pinus Banksiana instead. 

 Strange, weather-beaten, dwarfed shrubs they were, twisted into 

 many a fantastic shape along the wind-swept summit, and very 

 different from the handsome trees we had seen below. Descend- 

 ing the western cliffs of the mountain we returned to our starting 

 point by a wood path tunning near the western coast, and here 



we saw very little of the Piims Banksiana, showing that it is more 

 abundant towards the eastward in the interior of the peninsula. 

 ■ This unreported coast station of Pinus Banksiana, so much 

 farther south than hitherto known, has always had great interest 

 for me in connection with the studies upon the flora of Mt. Des- 

 sert in which I have for many years been engaged. The locality 

 IS separated from Mt. Desert Island by a bay not over five 

 miles in width, yet up to the present time no observer has seen 

 even a single tree of Pimis Banksiana upon that island. 



Whe 



Pinus Banksiana with Corema Conradii. 



By John H. Redffeld. 



istence of Pinus Banksiana upon Schoodic Peninsula, I was very 

 desirous to visit the locality, and on the 24th August last I was 

 enabled to do so in company with Mr. Theodore D. White, a 

 member of the Agassiz Club of New York. At that time I had 

 not the benefit of Mr. Rand's notes as given above, and ignorant 

 of the topography, Vv^e were obliged to make our search very 

 much at random. From Winter Harbor we drove by the road 

 which crosses to the eastern side of the peninsula and then turns 

 southerly till it terminates in a farm. Long before reaching this 

 terminus Ave passed through a forest composed almost exclusively 

 of Pinus Banksiana, the trees reaching to the height of at least 

 ^^^^enty or thirty feet. Occasionally a spruce or arbor vitc-e appeared 



Note.— Since the above was written 1 have received a letter from Mr. Day,^ cor- 

 recting me in one important particular He states that his specimen of -P/^^^/J" />'"^m'- 

 siana came from Trospect Harbor, Goldsboro, a station lying on the eastern shore 

 of the Schoodic Peninsula, not on the westtrn ^hore where 1 found this pme. My 

 discovery of it both there and on Schoodic Mountain appears, therefore, to liaye 

 been the fortunate result of a misunderstanding. Mr. Day's station was evidently 

 somewhere north of the station discovered by Mr. Kedfield. 



