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cea and Convolvulus sepium. The banks of the river here, as 

 at nearly every point observed, were studded with frequent 

 clumps of large trees of Acer saccharinum, which had seeded 

 extravagantly, and now the myriads of little seedlings were 

 struggling to gain an existence in the sandy beaches, where 

 most of them are doomed to destruction at the first stream 

 flood. The sandy strands of the river afforded Salix lucida 

 and Salix cordata, both frequent, Salix petiolaris, rare, and 

 an abundance of Salix sericea. Here the latter presented 

 three forms, the small-leaved and the long-leaved forms, 

 already noted at Kingfield, with a third, a small-leaved form 

 with the hairs more spreading and less shining when viewed 

 from the apex, no less so when viewed from the base. All of 

 the willows were in dense matted clumps or knolls, low and 

 shrubby. Scattered between the knolls was Agropyron repens, 

 generally slender and green, but occasionally stouter and very 

 glaucous. Danthonia spicata was common here, and farther 

 up the beach mats of Andropogon scoparius abounded, with 

 very large mats of Hudsonia tomentosa, var. intermedia, bind- 

 ing the ridges of wind and water driven sand. A few young 

 plants of Polygonella articulata were found. Alnus crispa, 

 var. mollis, was common and Apocynmn cannabinum abounded 

 on all of the strands. 



July 7th. The day was devoted to an all-day trip along 

 the Lovell road, over the new bridge to Lily Pond in Sweden, 

 back to Smart's Hill, and again over the new bridge, along 

 the "old river," bank to the toll bridge, and return to point 

 of starting over the Bridgton road. The sandy plains of 

 Fryeburg were covered with an abundance of Quercus ilici- 

 folia and Vaccinium vacillans. Frequent clumps of Amelan- 

 chier stolonifera, now ripening its juicy berries, and Helian- 

 themum canadense were common. 



In a boggy area, extending from the road to the Saco 

 River, Carex oligosperma was abundant and Viola primulifolia 

 and Viola lanceolata were common. At another boggy spot 

 Eriophorum viridi-carinatum and Salix pedicellaris , var. hypo- 

 glauca were found. 



The section locally called "the sand plains," a low, 

 sandy area of large extent nearly at river level, in a bend of 

 the Saco southwest of Fryeburg Center, was explored rather 



