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leaves and bracts. Two other striking sedges with long leaves and 

 very long flowering stalks are C. cephaloidea and C. sparganioides. 

 C. longirostris is another tall sedge that I discovered this year. In 

 drier soil and among the loose fragments fallen from the ledges above 

 is C. Hitchcockiana, which comes into fruit rather later than the others. 

 In places the ground is carpeted with C. pedunculata, and this year I 

 was pleased to detect with it, and superficially resembling it, some 

 fine specimens of the rarer C. Backii. C. rosea and C. albicans are 

 rather common here, as elsewhere in Vermont. In wet clay not far 

 away across the road is an abundance of C. aurea. 



There are three grasses in the dry open woods, Melica striata, 

 Oryzopsis asperifolia and Festuca nutans. They grow on the dry 

 ledges and on the talus-slopes, often under the arbor-vitae. It is most 

 surprising to find the bloodroot, Sanguinaria canadensis, not only in 

 moist glades, but everywhere over and in the ledges. Many of the 

 plants are very small with reduced leaves, but the crevices are full 

 of them. At an old quarry nearby I once found the curious strawberry 

 blite, Chenopodium capitatum, in similar crevices fully fruited in 

 mid-July. 



Viola sororia, V. rostrata, and V. canadensis are abundant and 

 very characteristic of these woods. In rich woods not far away are 

 other common violets. Where the ledges are exposed in the dry 

 pastures, there are the two introduced borages so common in the lime- 

 stone country, Cynoglossum officinale and Lithospermum officinale. 



I have found this region most attractive and promising, and further 

 investigation ought to develop other surprises. There are abundant 

 rich woods nearby, with the fiowers and ferns so familiar in western 

 Vermont, the trees mostly sugar maples. West of Swanton is the big 

 delta of the Missisquoi River reaching far out into the lake, with an 

 entirely different association of plants. 



1921 IN WOODSTOCK 



E. M. Kittredge 



The greater part of my few weeks' stay in Woodstock was spent in 

 establishing a portion of the collection in the cases Miss Billings has 

 had made to display the mounted specimens, so comparatively little 

 collecting was done, but we feel that the record for the season is 

 worthy of note. The first plant collected was the meadow fox-tail 



