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botanical lessons and manuals and the most successful botanical 

 author and botanical teacher that New England has ever produced, 

 to find the "flower garden" at Willoughby, in August, 1845. An "ob- 

 servation" of his on page 279 of the Class Book of 1847, under Saxifraga 

 oppositifolia. is as follows: 



"I discovered this and the foregoing species (S. aizoides) in the 

 above locality (in the clefts of rocks, Willoughby Mt., Westmore, Vt., 

 500 ft. above W. Lake), where they had passed flowering." The Class 

 Book of 1847 also lists Hedysarum boreale and Artemisia canadensis 

 and the Class Book of 1849 gives Primula mistassinica as his dis- 



By later botanists he is accredited with Woodsia glabella, Draba 

 and Potamogeton praelongus. Professor Wood at this time must have 

 been an extremely busy man as associate principal of Kimball Union 

 Academy. He was married in 1844 and at the same time was preparing 

 the first edition of his Class Book which tradition tells us was copied 

 entirely by Mrs. Wood. This edition came out early in 1845. This 

 same spring his son was born and it is quite likely that he took his 

 trip to Willoughby Lake while visiting his wife's parents at Bradford, 

 Vt. We have no evidence of another stop at Willoughby and this one 

 must have been a hurried trip. Summer vacations of teachers in 

 those days were extremely short. 



In July, 1852, C. C. Frost and Rev. A. H. Clapp visited Willoughby. 

 They secured Pellaea atropurpurea, Carex scirpoidea, Braya humilis 

 and Astragalus Blakei. They were the first botanists to use the rail- 

 way to reach Willoughby. Lake Willoughby is on the outskirts of the 

 great Essex County and northern Maine wilderness and must have 

 been exceedingly wild and attractive before the opening of the rail- 

 ways. The Central Vermont was finished in 1849. The Vermont 

 Valley and the Connecticut and Passumpsic in 1851. With the open- 

 ing of the railways Willoughby was bound to be better known and 

 become exploited. The highway along the east side of the lake and 

 the Lake House at the head of the lake were built between 1852 and 

 1854. 



In 1854 William Boott visited the region. Rev. Joseph Blake came 

 in 1861 or perhaps earlier, and discovered Saxifraga Aizoon. 



In 1862 Horace Mann visited Willoughby. 



In 1873 came the Faxons and Dr. Cyrus G. Pringle. Dr. Pringle 

 found Woodsia alpina and the Faxon herbarium treasured Asplenium 

 viride, which was found on Mt. Hor by Mrs. Condit in 1887. I have 

 coveries. 



