42 Joint Bulletin 8 



Pedicularis canadensis, Geranium pusillutn, Allium vineale, Glyceria 

 laxa, Agrostis hyemalis, Festuca rubra var. subvillosa, Valeriana offi- 

 cinalis, Radicula sylvestris, Juncus tenuis, Panicum Boscii, Scirpus 

 cyperinus, Onoclea seiisibilis var. obtusilobata, Rynchospora glomerata. 

 Lychnis dioioa, Iva Xanthifolia, Lycopodium inundatum, Cyperus 

 filmiculmis var. macilentus, Leontodon autumyialis, Lepidium sativum, 

 Carex flava var. rectrirostra, C. platyphylla, C. eburnea, C. canescens 

 var. subloliacea, C. Bebbii, C. Novae-Angliae, C. festucacea, Carex mira- 

 bilis, C. straminea, C. vesicarea, C. Pseudo-Cyperus, C. lurida var. 

 gi'acilis. 



The treat of the season was, of course, the meeting of the clubs at 

 Lake Willoughby, a full account of which was published in the Ver- 

 monter, Autumn edition, Nos. 7 and 8, Vol. 21, reprinted elsewhere in 

 this issue. In October, J. M. Perham, who was surveying on Wheeler 

 Mountain in the town of Westmore, found a large station for Polypo- 

 dium vulgare var. cambricum. 



The best single day's botanizing which I did last season was at 

 Cole's Pond in Walden. The high altitude, the pond, and the extensive 

 swampy land all contributed habitats for the rarest of plants. 



In working over my own area after the Willoughby meetings I 

 found stations for many of the carices that we found there. 



I always combine birds and flowers and on June 22 I saw a pair 

 of Arctic three-toed woodpeckers. They were seen on three different 

 occasions and two others besides me saw them. 



On May 19 I saw a pair of starlings carrying nesting materials 

 into a hollow tree. I saw them several times in that vicinity, and 

 this spring there were six individuals in the same region. I wondered 

 if these might have been the adults of last year, with their family. 



A pair of black-crowned night herons spent over two months, 

 August to October, in St. Johnsbury in the region of Sleeper's River. 

 This was quite an unusual visitation. 



Extreme drouth and killing frosts made our season for birds and 

 flowers much shorter than usual, and everything passed so hurriedly 

 that many plant specimens were much less perfect than usual, and 

 fewer well-fruited specimens were obtainable. 



On the other hand, the receding of the waters in the ponds al- 

 lowed many seeds of marsh and water plants to germinate in the oozy 

 borders, so that furnished stations for several species new to our 

 region. 



Taken as a whole, 1921 was a strange, but prosperous year. 



