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Bulletin 6 



1916. 



The Wells Meeting. 



By Arthur H. Norton. 



The twenty-second annual meeting of the Josselyn 

 Botanical Society was held at Wells, Maine, August 8-11, 

 1916, with an attendance of twenty-six, including several 

 members of the New England Federation of Natural History 

 Societies, which held a part of its summer meeting with the 

 Josselyn Society. Headquarters were at the Elm Hotel. 



A meeting was held in the evening of the 8th, and after 

 the transaction of business, Dr. M. L. Fernald presented a 

 list of twenty-two plants recorded from southwestern Maine, 

 but of which no specimens from the state are known to be in 

 existence. Dr. Fernald exhibited representatives of all these 

 species, and called attention to their distinctive features, 

 habits and places of growth, for the purpose of helping 

 members in a search for them. This list appears beyond, and 

 it is here emphasized that information on the discovery of 

 any of these plants in the state will be welcomed by the Sec- 

 retary of the Society, or the Portland Society of Natural His- 

 tory, at Portland, Maine. 



Several members who had arrived early had made short 

 excursions to the salt marshes, where their presence proved 

 unwelcome to the non-opulent landlords. Nevertheless their 

 prompt and cautious retreat was not without the spoils of 

 victory, including Triglochin pains tris, Distich lis spicata, Puc- 

 cinellia maritima, Scirpus occidentalism and on the higher 

 ground Car ex Muhlenbergii, and by the roadside near the 

 hotel Scleranthus annuns and Veronica longi folia. 



August 9th. A drenching rain prevailed throughout the 

 forenoon, with heavy showers in the afternoon. Parties of 



