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collectors ventured forth to the woods near the hotel, and 

 various points as far as York Beach. Among the plants 

 collected were Panicum Scribnerianum , Car ex Muhle?ibergii, 

 Carex cephalophora, Galium Aparine (the woodland form), 

 Satureja vulgaris, Pycnanthemum muticum (new to Maine), 

 Krigia virginica and Cirsium discolor, the latter one of the 

 previously unsubstantiated species, together with a consider- 

 able number of lichens. 



In the evening a meeting was held in the hotel annex, 

 when a paper by Professor M. A. Chrysler, entitled "Some 

 Profitable Lines of Botanical Activity," was read by the 

 Secretary, Dr. Dana W. Fellows. A second paper was read 

 by Mr. George K. Merrill, entitled "intensive Collecting, 

 with a Lichenological Illustration." Both of these papers 

 appear beyond. Mr. Edward B. Chamberlain gave a talk on 

 "Mosses," illustrated with freshly gathered specimens. The 

 meeting was then given over to an exhibition of the day's 

 collections and a discussion of the specimens. 



August 10th. Though several parties were formed for 

 the day, the leading event was the formation of a party of 

 four for an all-day trip to Alfred and Lyman, in a determined 

 and partly successful search for some of the unsubstantiated 

 species. In a woodland sphagnous swamp, with water often 

 knee deep, though also on much drier ground, was found the 

 remains of a once large area of * Chamaecyparis thyoides, asso- 

 ciated with Picea rubra, Tsuga canadensis , Pinus Strobus, Chi- 

 ogenes hispidula, Vacciniiun corymbosum, *Ilex laevigata and 

 Nemopanthus mucronata. Residents stated that the "cedar" 

 (which is still common there) had been cut out a few years 

 previous, and upwards of a hundred cords marketed. Other 

 more or less noteworthy plants collected on this trip were 

 /uncus canadensis, var. subcaudatus, Quercus coccinea (rare), 

 Quercus velutina (rather common), Helianthemum canadense, 

 and majus (abundant in dry, sandy roadsides), Rhus Vernix 

 (frequent), Nyssa sylvatica (rare), Sericocarpus asteroides (fre- 

 quent) and Liatris scariosa. Emulous of this success, a large 

 party visited the cedar swamp the following day. 



August 11th. Besides the party which went to Lyman, 

 trips were made to Drake's Island, a sandy point of sea beach 



