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List of books and papers published by T. Eggelston. pp. 4. From the author. 
Valedictory address to the Twenty-ninth Graduating Class of the Women’s Med- 
ical College. Rachel L, Bodley, A.M., M.D. From the authoress. 
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GENERAL NOTES. 
BOTANY.! 
A Boranist's Trip To “ Tue Aroosroox.’—I find by reading 
the Natura ist, that all. matters of botanical interest are wel- 
comed by its editors, and full of the enthusiasm of all lovers of 
nature, I venture to send to its readers a brief account of my life 
last summer in Aroostook county, Maine. I went there for the 
purpose of gathering ‘wild flowers,’ hoping to add a few new 
species. to the large number which I had already collected in 
various counties in the State. I arrived at Fort Fairfield July 6th, 
and to my delight found the banks of the Aroostook river 
abounding in work for my brush. I remained there six weeks, 
and enriched my portfolio with sketches of the following plants, 
viz: lofieldia glutinosa, Allium Schenoprasum, Parnassia Caro- 
liniana, T) riglechin palustre, Castilleia pallida, Rosa blanda, Ane- 
mone Pennsylvanica, Campanula rotundifolia var. linifolia, Ascyrum 
stans, Tanacetum Huronense, Hedysarum boreale and Astragalus 
alpinus. (The three latter are reported by Professor Goodale and 
Mr. C.G. Pringle.) From Fort Fairfield I went to Caribou and 
Presque Isle, still following the river. In these places I gathered 
Oxytropis campestris (also reported by G. L. G.), Nabalus racemo- 
sus, Lobelia Kalmii, Polygala Senega, besides many more plants with 
which the banks ab 1. Andinacoldd p p t Caribou, which 
they call the “ Bog on the Barren,” I gathered large quantities of 
Valeriana sylvatica, Galium trifidum vars. pusillum and tinctorium, 
Fpilobium molle, and a few specimens of Microsiylis monophyllos 
and 7. ophioglossoides. Orchids abound in these wet, inaccessible 
places, especially Cypripedium spectabile, Habenaria dilatata and 
1. hyperborea. | found the first named in such masses and so high 
that it hindered our progress considerably, In an equally cold 
bog at Presque Isle, I gathered Rides rubrum, Lonicera oblongifolia 
and Khamnus alnifolius, In “a fallow” at Caribou, occurred an ab- 
Normal form of Viola canina (Aug.); I gathered it because it was so 
late in the season and the blossoms were so pretty,.not discovering 
at the time that they were spurless, but I have shown them to four 
botanists and they agree that they are V. canina, and are both 
Spurless and beardless. In the same wild and fascinating place I 
found rge numbers of the delicate fern named Cystopteris bulbif- 
“7@, it was so woven into the underbrush that the longest speci- 
“agg which I was able to procure in a perfect state are but two 
‘et in length, but they grew much longer. It was warm and 
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