Vermont Botanical and Bird Cli j:s L )( J 



showy lady's slipper, and I have found them at least three different 

 seasons, one with an interval of a year or two between them when I 

 did not visit the spot. They are vigorous and very beautiful. 



Addition to Vermont Hepatic List 



Miss Annie Lorenz of Hartford, Conn., writes of the finding of 

 the hepatic, Marsupella Sullivantii (De Not) Evans at Mount Mansfield 

 in July, 1917. This is new to Vermont. 



New Station for Panicum Tsugetorum 



Panicum tsugetorum Nash has been found growing in Tinmouth 

 by Dana S. Carpenter of Middletown Springs. The plant was determined 

 by Prof. A. S. Hitchcock. The site was a gravelly-clay roadside. 



Bohemian Waxwings at Hartland 



On October 30, 1917, a flock of Bohemian waxwings numbering 100 

 or more, visited "Sky Farm," Hartland, Vt., Miss Nancy Darling's home, 

 for mountain ash berries, and the next day, when they returned, Mrs. 

 A. B. Morgan was present to observe their feeding. They kept them- 

 selves in three squads — one in the ash tree eating berries and two on 

 maple trees in the grove keeping watch. 



While feeding they were constantly shifting their positions, and 

 some of the birds frequently lifted their wings in such a manner 

 as to show white along the back edges of each wing. While settling 

 down upon the ash trees, the birds made an odd squeaking sound of 

 satisfaction and all the time while feeding they uttered little notes 

 that implied contentment. Some years previously a flock of half a 

 dozen or so visited the farm. 



An Interesting Orchid 



A rarely beautiful flowering of the large coral root orchis Coral- 

 lorrhiza maculata was observed by Miss Darling and a visiting botanist 

 while searching in Finley Glen, Hartland, on July 30, 1917, for Haoen- 

 aria macrophylla. The plants occurred both singly and in groups, but 

 all in full bloom, and some of the spikes, a foot or more high, were so 

 crowded as to convey a sense of opulence. The butterfly form of the flow- 

 ers suggested insects and rendered the plants almost uncanny, though 

 very beautiful in their rose and madder-purple coloring. At the heart 

 of each blossom was a spot of yellow dotted with magenta — the little 

 column, which gave life and lustre to the whole. 



At first these leafless orchids were scarcely noticeable in the un* 

 derbrush among the brown leaves of a former season, but, one by one, 



