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about the only lime rock to be found east of the Green Mountains is 

 located there. The club members should be able to secure good accom- 

 modations at a reasonable rate. 



There are plans to lengthen the usual two days meeting in order 

 to cover more ground, the Plymouth section having been little visited 

 by botanists. 



There may be some disappointments at the change in program, as 

 not a few wished to visit Averill Lake, but Island Pond has been sug- 

 gested as a much better northern botanical field and it will be con- 

 sidered for the 1921 meeting. It is not far from Averill. 



Mrs. Nellie F. Flynn, 

 Miss Elsie M. Kittredge, 

 E. J. Dole, 



Committee. 



A SPRING DAY IN FLORIDA 



Evaline Darling Morgan 



I wish that I might picture to you the shining fields and flowing 

 road that led away from Lake Winnemisset (DeLand), Fla., on March 

 30, 1919, across country to New Smyrna, Daytona and along the beach 

 to Ormond. There is something indescribably thrilling and tonic in 

 the spring air and sunshine of this favored region; the song of birds 

 rings out clearly and strikingly in the stillness of the wastes, while 

 the colors of the bright blossoms shine all the more brilliantly in con- 

 trast to the general greyness of the landscape. Like so many of the 

 lakes of Florida, Winnemisset lies like a clear jewel set around by in- 

 dented shores, level muck lands, and, a little farther back, by orange 

 groves which at this time of the year gleam bright with fruit and 

 flowers, the fragrance of the latter permeating the air made sweet 

 to the ears by the notes of the purple martin, the mocking bird and 

 the cardinal. 



A lone duck floats upon the clear water of the lake in the morn- 

 ing light. Overhead white-bellied swallows skim, and from the scrub 

 palmettos darts the Carolina wren or the brown thrasher, while that 

 distinctly Florida bird, the Joree, utters its questioning "tow wee" and 

 shyly peers from some secluded perch. Among the water oaks the 

 kinglets and the blue-gray gnatcatchers cry "ti-ti" or "ting." Asso- 

 ciated with them are orange-crowned, yellow-throated, myrtle, prairie. 



