JOSSELYN BOTANICAL SOCIETY 



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On Saturday morning, which was clear and cool, a large 

 party went by electric car to Pond Cove schoolhouse, Cape 

 Elizabeth, and walked by the shore road to Cape Cottage. 



Prof. Wiegand demonstrated the fact that trees and 

 shrubs may be readily determined by their winter characters, 

 especially of the buds and leaf-scars. About twenty-five spe- 

 cies of trees and shrubs were thus distinguished. 



Prof. Collins succeeded in collecting several species of 

 hair-cap mosses on sunny banks, though the ground was 

 mostly snow covered. 



Dr. Riddle collected from trees, rocks and fences thirty 

 species of lichens, which he demonstrated to the members of 

 the party, most of whom had very little knowledge of this 

 division of the plant world. Among the more interesting 

 species found were the coastal Clado?iia reticulata and the 

 southern Usnea trichodea. 



Prof. Fernald called attention to the fruit of trees and 

 shrubs, and also of herbaceous plants which stand through 

 the winter. The capsules or other coverings, and the struc- 

 ture and divisions are more easily seen and understood than 

 during the season of flowering. 



Saturday afternoon, Prof. Fernald spoke on "Recent 

 Additions to the Maine Flora," illustrating all the plants 

 mentioned by mounted specimens. 



Mr. C. H. Knowlton, of Hingham, Mass., described "The 

 Boreal Flora of the Washington County Coast." This was 

 also illustrated by specimens pressed and mounted. 



Abstracts of all these will be found in the Bulletin. 



At this session five were elected to membership, viz.: 

 Mrs. Winfield E. Hanson, Kennebunkport; Mrs. Charles S. 

 Wilson, Portland; Mr. Hiram Ellis, Portland- Miss Nellie F. 

 Dunton, Bath; Mrs. F. P. Abbott, Saco.* 



Before the call for this meeting was sent out a circular 

 was prepared and sent to teachers of botany in Maine, and 

 others who, it was thought, would be interested in the sub- 

 ject, and also to many of the newspapers published in the 

 state, setting forth the objects of the Society, and its desire 



*Four applications for membership were received too late to be acted 

 upon by the Society. 



