Vol. 4 No. 3 



TORREYA 



March, 1904 

 A SUMMER IN SALLSBURY, COXXICCTICU T 



By a. ViNCl'.NT OSMLN 



Occupyinfj the northwest corner of Connecticut, the toun of 

 Scih'sbury is bordered on the west by New York State and on the 

 north by Massachusetts. Mountains and valleys, lakes, swamps 

 and brooks innumerable combine to make this not onl}- a region 

 of great natural beauty, but to the botanist one of the richest 

 hunting grounds in southern New England. Here we find Con- 

 necticut's highest point of land, Bear Mountain, rising 2,355 ^^^^ 

 above the level of the sea, while Lakes Washining and Washinee^ 

 " the twin lakes of the woods," and Lake Wononscopomuc are 

 among her largest and most beautiful sheets of water. Along 

 the eastern border of the town flows the Housatonic River. 

 There are deep, cold, almost inaccessible swamps, and the botanist 

 who has courage to penetrate their depths surely finds his reward. 



In this region it was the writer's good fortune to spend the 

 greater part of the summer of 1903. A number of plants 

 hitherto unreported as growing in Connecticut were collected, 

 together with many rare or unusual in other parts of the State. 

 That Salisbury should have a flora so different from other parts, 

 of the State is probably due to the generally higher altitude, there 

 being few points in the town below 600 feet, while at least ten. 

 peaks rise above 1,400 feet. 



Our collecting was confined chiefly to a large estate in the- 

 northern part, comprising about one thousand acres of land typi- 

 cal of the whole town, though a few of the plants here mentioned! 

 were not found within this area. The summer's collecting by 

 no means represents the complete flora of this region, but the 

 following seem to deserve especial mention at this time : 



[Vol. 4, No. 2, of TiiRREYA, comprising pages 17-32, was issued February 25, 

 1904.] 



