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reptans, common. A short distance beyond this point, in a 

 small sink hole in the first terrace of Dead River, Scheuchzeria 

 palustris, Car ex rostrata, var. utriculata, Salix pe dice liar is, 

 var. hypoglauca, and Potentilla palustris were in abundance. 

 The road through Dead River plantation to Flagstaff passed 

 along near the edge of a sandy, shelf-like terrace of the Dead 

 River, and for several miles was through a forest of large red 

 pines (Pinus resinosa) , known as Cathedral Woods. A brief 

 stop here yielded Lycopodium tristachyum , Ardostaphylos Ura- 

 ursi and Solidago hispida. 



July 10th. The day was devoted to two trips, that of 

 the forenoon over a road along the northerly side of the Car- 

 rabassett stream, through old, rich woods, along marshy and 

 bog-bordered streams to New Portland, through fields and 

 open pastures, by a range of sand dunes, barren and defiant 

 of turf, across the Carrabassett River, over sandy plains, and 

 along its southerly side back to the point of starting. 



Among the plants of this trip were Taxus canadensis, 

 Glyceria laxa, common in the region, Car ex filiformis, Car ex 

 rostrata, var. utriculata, Medeola virginiana, Streptopus am- 

 plexifo litis; Epipactis tesselata, rare, Quercus rubra, frequent 

 by the Carrabassett, Betula populifolia, in a grove nearly a mile 

 long on a sandy plain in New Portland, south of the Carra- 

 bassett (also of frequent occurrence up its valley as far as 

 Jerusalem), Ribes lacustre, Pyrola asarifolia and Viburnum 

 dentatum. 



The afternoon, with an accomplished local guide, was 

 devoted to a trip to Stafford's Pond, in Lexington, for the 

 purpose of collecting Rhododendron maximum at its most 

 northerly known station. (See Cowan, 1899, Rhodora, I, 55.) 



The beginning of the trail was through an old wood, in 

 which Fagus grandifolia was abundant, but not a trace of 

 Epifagus was found here nor elsewhere in the region. Here 

 Botrychium virginianum was abundant and large, with an 

 abundance of Osmorhiza Claytoni. In an abandoned field, 

 now a pasture, were found the only examples of Spiraea 

 tomentosa seen in the region, and in this pasture persisted a 

 colony of Potentilla recta. On a kame at Stafford's Pond was 

 a colony of Botrychium simplex, with occasional examples of 



