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nests and the remains of food and eggs were examined carefully and 

 many birds, including various sizes of young, were close enough to 

 be studied. 



BOTANIZING IN ST. JOHNSBURY IN 1915 



Inez Addie Howe. 



During the past season 574 species of flowering plants, 46 of ferns 

 and fern allies and 22 of mosses and lichens were shown on the 

 flower tables at the Fairbanks museum. Only 48 of these were col- 

 lected beyond our five-mile radius and many interesting additions were 

 made to the local flora of St. Johnsbury. 



Most notable among the additions are the following species: Ribes 

 trieste var. albinervium, on clayey banks; Hierochloe odorata. growing 

 plentifully by roadside; Veronica scutellata. grows abundantly in a 

 swamp at St. Johnsbury Center and on the shores of Stile's Pond; 

 Sa?iicula trifoliata and Circaea intermedia were found in moist, cool 

 woods; Lappula echinata sprang up in a newly seeded field. 



During the summer meetings of the clubs we found Linaria minor 

 at Danville and in October I found another station along the railway 

 at St. Johnsbury. I have a second station for the state for Hieracium 

 pratense on the golf links above our village. Campanula aparinoides 

 was found in a swamp near the village, and Euphorbia maculata I 

 found in several waste places. 



Along one of our country roads I found a large area of Aster eri- 

 coides growing. This species is so unusual in this vicinity that I sent 

 specimens to Dr. Brainerd for verification. I shall be glad to furnish 

 exchange specimens of this species to club members desiring them. 



Desmodium nudiflorum was found growing plentifully on the 

 Passumpsic road two or three miles south of St. Johnsbury. A new sta- 

 tion for Epilobium densum was found, and Pycnanthernum flexuosum 

 was sent to me from St. Johnsbury Center for identification. 



My co-worker at the museum and fellow member of the clubs, 

 Miss Mabel Shields, has also made valuable additions to our town flora 

 during the past season. Her finds are as follows: Artemisia vulgaris. 

 on a waste pile; Verbascum blatteria var. albiflorum, in a hill pasture 

 a little north of town; Juniperus communis var. depressa. in nearly 

 the same locality; Pycnanthemum virginianum. in sandy soil and Alisma 

 plantago-aquatica, in wet soil where there was formerly a pond. 



