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JOURNAL OF 



THE NEW ENGLAND BOTANICAL CLUB 



Vol. 6 



June, 1904 



No. 66 



FLORA OF WILLOUGHBY, VERMONT. 

 GEORGE G. KENNEDY. 



THE approach to Willoughby Notch in old times was from the 

 north ; following up Barton River from Lake Memphremagog to the 

 stream, named in Thompson's History of Vermont (1842) Wil- 

 loughby's River, which flows from Willoughby's Lake between Mt. 

 Pisgah and Mt. Hor. Who this Willoughby may have been I am 

 unable to say, but his name has remained for the region and even 

 the higher easterly mountain is now usually designated as Mt. Wil- 

 loughby instead of by the older names, Pisgah or Annanance. 



The notch lies in the southern corner of Orleans county and about 

 at an equal distance, say 25 miles, from the Canada line on the north 

 and the town of St. Johnsbury on the south: approximately, the lati- 

 tude is 44 43' north, and the longitude is 72 2' west from Green- 

 wich. The two mountains and the ridge at the south end of the 

 lake divide the St. Lawrence waters from the Connecticut River 

 tributaries; on the east and south sides of Mt. Willoughby, Mt. Hor 

 and this ridge the streams unite for the Passumpsic river, and flow 

 into the Connecticut ; on the west and north sides the waters unite in 

 Barton river, flowing to Lake Memphremagog and the St. Lawrence 

 valley. The hotel and post office are on this ridge at the south end 

 of the lake, three miles from the nearest house to the north, through 

 the notch, and a mile from the next farm south. 



The shortest distance to the railroad is to West Burke, a station 

 on the Passumpsic division of the Boston and Maine. This drive of 

 six miles follows the brook through a beautiful country of hill and 

 valley with characteristic northern Vermont cedar ( Thuya occidentalis) 

 swamps. West Burke railroad station is Siofeet above the sea and 



