18 Joint Bulletins 4 and 5 



Evidently the last of a sturdy race that once inhabited that hill and 

 had escaped the commercial ginseng hunter's greed. 



Voccinivm macrocarpon is now known to grow in a bog almost 

 within the village limits and Artemisia Absinthium in a dry hill pas- 

 ture in one of our rural school communities. Scirpus lineatus grows 

 sparingly in damp soil near the St. Johnsbury golf links and Carex 

 Tuckermani was found by Miss Shields in open woods near the village. 

 In late October Ilex vertidllata in fruit was found by school children. 



On two trips to the Nine Island region at East Barnet, one on July 

 7 and another August 16, many interesting finds were made supplement- 

 ing those recorded by the club in 1915. Among the new species listed 

 from these expeditions were Orobanache uniflora, Calamagrostis 

 neglect a, Aster rimineus var. saxatilis. Ranunculus flamula var. reptans. 

 Epipactis tesselata and Epipactis repens var. ophioides, Habenaria brac- 

 teata and H. Hoolceri also Corallorrhiza maculata, Halenia deflexa. 

 'Woodsia obtusa and Asplenium platyneuron. 



This is a wonderfully profitable region, but even more so is the 

 Harvey's Pond region at West Barnet. From two brief trips there, I 

 am convinced that the pond, the shores, the surrounding woods and 

 nearby mountains hold untold treasures for the botanist as well as for 

 the ornithologist. Some of the rare treasures from this region in early 

 July are Microstylis monophyllos. Habenaria macrophylla. Monotropa 

 Hypopitys. PyrOla chlorantha. Rhododendron maximum, beside no end 

 of water plants which grow in the entrance to the pond. 



Another wonderful spot in northern Caledonia county is located 

 on the road to West Burke and there all conditions combine, the high 

 cool woods, the sphagnum swamp so shaky one does not dare to re- 

 main long in one place, the almost bottomless pond and here in turn 

 grow Epigaea repens. Andromeda glaucophylla, Chamaedaphne calycu- 

 lata, Ledum groenlandicum. Kalmia angustifolia, Pyrola asarijolia var. 

 incarnata. Sarracenia purpurea, Pogonia ophioglossoides, Calopogon 

 pulchellus. Dulichium arundinaceum, Eriophorum callitrix, and no end 

 of others both precious and rare. 



These are a few of the results of last season's work by the bontan- 

 ical department of the Fairbanks museum. From the various expe- 

 ditions 46 new species were added to our local flora which covers a 

 radius of five miles from the museum. Thirteen Vermont plants were 

 added to our general herbarium. There were 786 species, including 22 

 mosses and lichens, shown during the season on our flower tables. 

 Many more might have been displayed except for the fact that when 



