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Bulletin 6 



1919. 



The Kingfield Meeting. 



By Arthur H. Norton. 



The twenty-fourth annual meeting of the Josselyn Botan- 

 ical Society was held at Kingfield, Maine, with headquarters 

 at Hotel Herbert, July 8 to 11, 1919. 



The meeting- was devoted entirely to field work and the 

 annual business of the Society, lectures and talks having been 

 dispensed with to give all time to the collection and care of 

 specimens. 



Kingfield, which is situated in the eastern part of Frank- 

 lin County, is a thriving village, made attractive by a deep 

 civic interest and pride, evident on every hand, from the 

 stately and immaculate Hotel Herbert to the neat and begar- 

 dened homes that border its well-kept streets and roads. 

 Affording, as it does so completely, the comforts of modern life 

 in the midst of great forests, mountains, streams and ponds, 

 it is destined to become an even more important gateway to 

 the wilderness of Northwestern Maine than it now is. 



It is in the valley of the Carrabassett River. This stream, 

 with its numerous sharp turns, islands and broad, gravelly 

 strands, is a delight to the botanist as well as the angler, and 

 its long ranges of richly wooded, boulder-strewn hills are 

 hardly less inviting to the former. The hard-bedded road for 

 many miles follows the southerly bank of this promising 

 stream, through most inviting old woods of birch and beech, 

 occasionally emerging into narrow fields, where the roadside 

 at this season is blue with the dainty flowers of hairbell, or as 

 some marsh reaches back from the stream is brilliant with 

 Robbins' Senecio, and the pastures are made picturesque by 

 the abundance of white spruce. 



A short walk on the evening of arrival disclosed the pres- 

 ence of Equisetum hyemale, Glyceria laxa, Deschampsia cae- 

 spitosa, Carex flava, Potentilla arguta and Viola pubescens. 



