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seen but it is more common near tin- coast and southward. In a 

 portion of a cedar swam]) a lew specimens of Mitchella re/>t'>is 

 crept over the sphagnum. It is not found on the barrens proper. 



hut follows the tributaries of the rivers from the coast. Ilex 

 glabra, the ink-berry, with evergreen leaves commonly occupied 

 moist ground and the dark berries of this dioecious plant still 

 remained on the bushes. 



A small cedar swamp which we investigated sported a clump 

 of Pitcher Plant. 



Mosses seen were Dicranum scoparium, Dicranum fuscescens 

 with leaves curled when dried, Dicranella heteromalla, Thelia 

 hirttlla from the base of a tree, and a species of Bryum. 



Finns rigida was the prevailing conifer. We came across 

 some Pinus echinata, the Yellow Pine, with leaves mostly in 

 two's sometimes three's. It has softer and finer needles than the 

 Pitch Pine and the whole tree is less harsh in outline than the 

 stiff branching of Pinus rigida. 



\\ here we lunched were some of the grassdike clumps of 

 Xerophylhim asphodeloides or Turkey Beard, a plant of the lily 

 family. The dried racemes of last year still stood above the 

 green clumps. 



We saw at least a dozen Turkey Buzzards throughout the 

 day soaring overhead as we hiked along. Light reflecting from 

 the under wing surface makes these appear silvery instead of 

 their natural glossy blackish? We also saw a sparrow hawk. 

 Spring peepers were chorusing in several little swampy spots 

 and some of the people had collected frog eggs and a spotted 

 turtle near Maxim, our starting point. 



While ambling over some of the sand roads we noticed small 

 three inch piles of sand resembling ant hills. The hole on top 

 was at least one quarter inch wide and a pine needle would fall 

 in to a depth of four inches or so. This excluded the probability 

 of ants and their winding passages. With the aid of a guest's 

 trowel we tried to dig down following the hole, and the leader, 

 after several failures, managed to dig up a species of digger 

 wasp. The ground consisted of a six to eight inch layer of white 

 sand overlying a substratum of brown sand. The workings of 

 the wasps showed some of the latter well attesting to their dig- 

 ging powers. 



A single specimen of Lechea maritima or Beech Pinweed, a 



