Josselyx Botanical Society 



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1920. 



The Fryeburg Meeting. 



By Arthur H. Norton. 



The twenty-fifth annual meeting of the Josselyn Botan- 

 ical Society was held at Fryeburg, Maine, July 6 to 9, 1920, 

 with an attendance of twenty. Headquarters were at Argue 

 Not Inn, which proved a most inviting and comfortable home 

 for the members and their friends, and where everything pos- 

 sible was done for their convenience and comfort. 



The Society was fortunate in finding, at her home in 

 Fryeburg, Miss Harriett Abbott, whose extensive knowledge 

 of the natural history, and especially botany, of the region was 

 most liberally given, both as information for the guidance of 

 parties and as a personal guide on as many occasions as 

 possible. 



Fryeburg is situated on the Saco River, where the stream 

 emerges from the foothills of the White Mountain system and 

 winds through sandy plains seaward. Such rock exposures 

 as were visited were of granites and pegmatite, and glacial 

 action of great magnitude was visible in the vast sand plains 

 and frequent glacial and sink ponds of the region. The 

 shores of the meandering Saco are well diversified with rich, 

 old wooded banks or newer crumbling sandy banks. The 

 eddies of the numerous bends of the river are reinforced with 

 very broad beaches or strands of fine loose gravel and sand. 



July 6th. The afternoon was devoted to an excursion to 

 the eastern bank of the Saco River, below Weston's Bridge, 

 to the lower extremity of the first sandy strand, about a mile 

 below the bridge. 



In the outskirts of the village were noted Coryhis ameri- 

 cana and Corylus rostrata, the first predominant, and Erigcron 

 philadelphicus on the upper terrace or the Fryeburg plain, 

 while the terrace below, the flood plain, locally known as the 

 intervale, yielded Carex Craufordii, Carex Bebbi'i, Carex fes- 

 tucaeea, Carex crinita x scabrata, Carex stricta, Smilax herba- 



