Vermont Botanical and Bird Clubs 7 



The 12th was a beautiful day and we climbed Haystack mountain 

 for the beautiful view and the good botanizing along the way. Many 

 interesting things were seen and collected but nothing particularly new 

 was found. The blackberry specialists may have something to report 

 later. 



A good time was had in spite of the rain and the hotel accommoda- 

 tions were excellent. 



PLANTS NEW TO VERMONT COLLECTED AT 



WOODSTOCK 



Nellie F. Flynn 



Miss Elizabeth Billings is making an herbarium of the plants of 

 Woodstock and the past summer (1918) Miss E. M. Kittridge of the 

 New York Botanical garden staff did the collecting and mounting for 

 her. Miss Kittridge brought me in June specimens of plants new to 

 Vermont that had been found by her and former collectors for Miss 

 Billings. These have been deposited in the University of Vermont her- 

 barium. 



The plants are the chickweed, Stella?*ia strictifolia (collected by 

 Mrs. Porter) with the comment written on the sheet that it is what 

 has been going under the name 8. longipes but that true longipes has 

 obtuse sepals. It might be mistaken for S. graminea or S. longifolia. 



The heather was collected by Miss Kittridge but was first dis- 

 covered on Mount Tom by a maid in the Billings household. A new 

 yarrow, Achillea ligustica, was found growing in a patch of common 

 yarrow. It attracted Miss Kittridge's attention because of the darker 

 green color of the leaves. The pigweeds, Chenopodium leptophyllum, 

 collected by Miss Kittridge by the roadside, and C. lanceolatum,, found 

 by Mrs. Porter, were in the bunch as were Habenaria liyperborea var. 

 huronensis (not in Gray's Manual but determined by New York Botan- 

 ical garden), Thalictrum purpurascens, collected by Mrs. Porter. 



Miss Kittridge also presented two colored photographs to the club 

 herbarium, one of Pogonia affinis alone and one of that plant and 

 P. verticilata together. These are from plants collected on Long Island 

 but are interesting as the plants are very rare in Vermont, only one 

 plant of affinis having been collected (by Mrs. Holt at Burlington). 

 P. verticilata is known from only three stations and there are years 

 together when no plants are found at these stations. 



