6 Joint Bulletins 4 and 5 



After a good dinner a trip was taken to the highest point of the 

 mountain, the Chin. The rare high mountain plants, the diapensia, 

 Diapensia Lapponica, the mountain blueberries and cranberry, Yac- 

 'iniiim uliginosum, V. caespitosum,, V. pennsylvanicum var. angusti- 

 -folium and V. Vitis-Iclea. were all seen besides several carices and 

 other plants of high altitudes. The orchis, Listera convallarioides was 

 found in the swamp near the hotel. 



The evening was occupied with a sunset party on the side of the 

 Nose and a business meeting and social hour. 



Wednesday morning all hands started for Smugglers' Notch, most 

 of us on foot by the Long Trail; the rest, not up to the walk, were 

 conveyed by team. 



The more strenuous members climbed to the foot of the cliffs on 

 either side of the Notch and were rewarded by the three mountain 

 saxifrages, Saxifraga Aizoon, S. Aizoides. and S. oppositifolia, the rare 

 ferns, Woodsia glabella, and W. alpina, and Asplenium viride, the hem- 

 lock parsley, Conioselinum chinense, the fleabane, Erigeron hyssopi- 

 folius, and the grass, Fastuca ovina var. brevifolia. 



After lunching and botanizing around the big spring, where Listera 

 convallarioides was again collected, we started for Stowe, stopping 

 again on our way to visit Bingham Falls and shortly had turned our 

 faces homeward after another of our highly interesting and entertain- 

 ing meetings. 



The Summer Meeting of 1918 



The members of the Vermont Botanical and Bird Clubs to the num- 

 ber of 3 5 gathered at Child's Tavern at Wilmington, the evening of 

 July 9. Next day several more were added to our number so that in 

 all 25 members were present. The 10th was spent in a trip to West 

 Dover, botanizing along the Deerfield valley. Rain drove us home early 

 in the afternoon. Interesting sedges, blackberries and the pearlwort, 

 Sagina procumbens, were found, among other things. 



The forenoon of the 11th a trip was made to Lake Sadawga in 

 Whitingham to see the floating islands. No boat was available to get 

 to them so we had to be content with one anchored to the shore but 

 otherwise with all of the characteristics of the floating ones. Here we 

 found the usual shrubs, sedges and orchids of sphagnum swamps and, 

 what was best of all, the arrow arm, Peltandra virginica. Rain came 

 again as we drove back to dinner. In the afternoon we were out again 

 to Ray pond only to have the rain beat us. 



