Vermont Botanical and Bird Club 19 



July 12. — I feed him and put him out and of a sudden I see him 

 mount far up in the crabapple tree. I call and he responds, but has no 

 intention, evidently, of coming to me. I see him several times that day, 

 but on the next he has joined several others of his kind about the place, 

 and never more answers my language. I fancy that one bolder and 

 tamer than the rest may be my pet, but have no way to identify him 

 from this time. 



ONE AFTERNOONS BOTANIZING 



Nellie F. Flynn. 



A hill in Colchester where there is an abandoned quarry once 

 worked by the Mallett's Bay Marble Company has for a long time at- 

 tracted me and I had the feeling that there was something new for me 

 there. 



At last one afternoon last summer my chance came to explore it. 

 It is a rocky hill composed, I think, of limestone wholly or in part; 

 just such a place as the lime loving ferns prefer. There were Poly- 

 podiums of course, as there always is in rocky woods in this section, 

 but I was greatly surprised at the quantities of the maidenhair spleen- 

 wort, Asplenium Trichomanes, and the rue spleenwort, Asple?iium Ruta- 

 muraria. I have seen them growing in favored locations before in what 

 I thought abundance, but nothing like this. 



Not so abundant was the purple cliff brake, Pellaea atropurpurea, 

 but it was very luxuriant, some fronds measuring 15 inches in length. 

 Only two or three plants of the ebony spleenwort, Asplenium ebeneum, 

 were seen. 



The crowning pleasure of the afternoon was reserved for the last 

 and that was the finding of 13 plants of pine drops, Pterospora andro- 

 medea. I had never seen it growing before and was therefore the more 

 delighted to find so many plants of it. Found three in one place and 

 a little later, just as we were leaving the woods, I found the other 10. 

 Think I should have found more if I had had more time. 



