JOSSELYN BOTANICAL SOCIETY 



1914. 



The twentieth annnal field meeting of the Josselyn Bo- 

 tanical Society of Maine occurred at Van Buren, Aroostook 

 Co., July I4th-i8th, 1914, with headquarters at the Hotel 

 Hammond, and the following in attendance : Miss Anna 

 Barnes, Mr. and Mrs. R. C. Bean, Mr. C. H. Bissell, Mr. E. 

 B. Chamberlain, Miss Mary I. Corning, Mr. J. H. Emerton, 

 Dr. D. W. Fellows, Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Knowlton, Miss E. 

 M. Moody, Mr. A. H. Norton, Miss Elsie L. Shaw, Mrs. C. F. 

 Starbird, Mr. C. A. Weatherby, Miss Lena Willis, Mr. R. C. 

 Woodward. 



The country in the vicinity of Van Buren has largely 

 been cleared and the swamps drained. The river banks, also, 

 at this time of year, were more or less covered with waste 

 from the sawmills, and lacked the broad expanse of shingle 

 familiar to those who have visited Fort Kent or Fort Fairfield. 

 These circumstances, and the absence of any pronounced 

 outcrops of country rock, rather narrowed the possibilities in 

 the way of collecting and account for the absence of some 

 species otherwise to be expected. The following account is 

 only a summary of the various excursions and meetings, with 

 mention of the more noteworthy plants seen or collected. 



Most of the party reached Van Buren Monday evening, 

 July 13th, though a few spent the day in the vicinity of 

 Limestone and Phair, at the latter place securing a quantity 

 of Ranunculus Purshii. The first excursion was to the river 

 banks below the town, which were somewhat carefully ex- 

 plored for a distance of two miles. The absence of Tofteldia 

 glutinosa and Hedysarum bcreale and the rarity of Oxytropis 

 campestris, var. johannensis, and Senecio Balsamitae, all of 

 which were expected, was conspicuous. Anemone canaden- 

 sis , Astragalus alpinus, var. Brunetianus, CalamagrosHs neg-- 

 lecta, Lathyrus palusiris, Pedicularis Furbiskiae* Potentilla 

 Anserzna, Senecio Robbinsiz. and Salix pellita were common 

 and characteristic. In the afternoon a party visited a small 



