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manager and his wife were very cordial and helpful, giving us the 

 freedom of the big billiard room in which to arrange our plants and 

 guiding us the next morning to a most delightful bog where the softest 

 of sphagnum blossomed with Pogonia. Calopogon. Arethusa, Buckbean, 

 Kalmia. and kindred plants delighted the eye. This would be good 

 botanizing but the hotel is a railroad man's sleeping place only. 



The next day we motored nearly all day through to Norton's Mills 

 on the Canadian line, and thence to the little hamlet of Wallis Pond, 

 which is a record of hill and bog, and timber slash, overgrown more or 

 less completely. There are bogs with a center of clear water; mud 

 flats with dwarf callas, dotted with the yellow blossoms of utricularias. 

 eriophorum, rynchospora, mountain holly, and black spruce. 



We left them all regretfully; they would have to be reached from 

 a base at Island Pond, and Island Pond lacked a hotel. 



That night we camped in the yard of a little school-house at Wallis 

 Pond, near farm houses and pleasant fields, with the opposite shore 

 under the Union Jack, a brisk breeze flapping our tent curtains and 

 fish leaping for flies the only sounds. 



The next day we went to Canaan where the Connecticut River 

 sheltered some interesting things. I think it was here that we found 

 Salix balsamifera, and Evening Primroses flourished as if it were 

 always evening, with petals 2 1 4. inches across, where the spray from 

 the granite rocks kept them continually moist. 



Distance and lack of hotels are two disagreeable factors to be 

 reckoned with in making Bloomfield, Island Pond, Norton's Mills, or 

 Canaan, a place for the summer meeting. 



So much for my recollections of a pleasant trip with most agree- 

 able companions. 



List of plants taken on Essex County trip, July, 1920, by J. G. 

 Underwood, Harold Rugg, and D. S. Carpenter: 



Salix pellita, Anders, Salix lucida Muhl., J uncus filiformis L., 

 Juncus marginatus Rostk., Amelanchier laevis Meyer, Polygonum la- 

 pathifolium L., Ribes triste Pall. var. albinervium (Michx.) Fernald. 

 Spergularia rubra (L.) J. &. C. Presl., Picea mariana (Mill) BSP., Alo- 

 pecurus geniculatus L. var. aristulatus Torr., Sisymbrium altissimum 

 L., Aster paniculatus Lam., Utricularia intermedia Hayne, Utricularia 

 cornuta Michx., Lycopodium inundatum L., Lycopodium tristachyum 

 Pursh., Glyceria canadensis (Michx.) Trim, Lonicera caerulea L. var 



