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tific work as this is of tlie highest economic value should be readily 

 apparent to all who desire agriculture and material progress in the State. 

 The record of introduction and distribution of weeds and their progress 

 through the State is another eminentlj^ practical feature of the work 

 undertaken by this committee. 



The Committee on Plant-Lore is bringing together all information 

 about plants as known among unbotanical people. All popular ideas, 

 superstitions, and traditions, current among Maine people, concerning 

 the plants about them, and all popular names are collected and carefully 

 preserved. Of a still more practical nature is the collection by this com- 

 mittee of information concerning the uses of our native plants, either as 

 foods or medicines. Such information is highly interesting and much of 

 it may be of considerable economic importance. 



The Committees onBryophytes (mosses), Algjie, Fungi and Lichens have 

 undertaken the studj' in Maine of low groups of plants w'hich have been 

 almost entirely neglected in the past, the committees contain a number 

 of recognized authorities on these groups and there is promise that much 

 valual)le work will be accomplished under their direction. 



The committees will all gladly welcome any information or suggestions 

 from persons interested in Maine plants. And as soon as the society 

 becomes well established, and its work is well in hand, the people of the 

 State may expect to see the results of these investigations put into per- 

 manent and intelligible form. 



