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carefully. Here were found, in sandy ponds, Scirpus Torreyi 

 and Carex stricta, var. decora, both common. On the sandy 

 plain Paronychia argyrocoma, var. albimontana, was rare, and 

 Hudsonia tomentosa, var. intermedia, grew in small, scattered 

 clumps. The adjacent pine woods afforded Veronica offici- 

 nalis and other dry- woods plants. 



While one party was engaged with the exploration of the 

 sand plains, Miss Abbott conducted another party to a station, 

 well known to her, of Kalmia latifolia, returning with an 

 ample supply of freshly blossomed specimens. 



On a dry hillside near Fryeburg Center Vitis labrusca 

 was collected, and on the sandy plains in Sweden Deschamp- 

 sia Jiexuosa, Helianthemum canadense and Convolvulus spitha- 

 maeus were common, with the ever-present Quercus ilicifolia. 

 Amelanchier Bartramiana was also found there. Lily Pond, 

 a sink pond in the pine-forested plain, was visited, but proved 

 uninteresting, the shores being covered almost entirely with 

 Chamaedaphne to the water's edge. On a single sandy beach, 

 a few feet long, Rhynchospora glomerata was found. Near 

 the toll bridge, in Fryeburg, Peltandra virginica was found, 

 and here, as at other suitable places about Fryeburg, Ponte- 

 deria cordaia was common. Fraxinus pennsylvanica was also 

 found in the same vicinity. Farther along the road Vitis 

 novae-angliae was found in several ample clumps. At various 

 places along the roadside in Fryeburg Juglans cinerea was 

 noticed, often at considerable distance from houses, and 

 though considered by our drivers natives of the region, as an 

 introduced species its scattered and frequent occurrence had 

 the appearance of becoming feral. 



On the evening of this day Mr. Henry Merrill, of Hiram, 

 a thorough student of natural history and particularly several 

 departments of botany, arrived, and having brought for exhi- 

 bition a series of the Botrychiums of Maine and another series 

 of variations of Polystichum acrostic/toides, a meeting of the 

 society was called to order and Mr. Merrill exhibited these 

 specimens, talking informally and most interestingly of their 

 characteristics and peculiarities, together with his experiences 

 with them in the field. Mrs. F. S. Hamlin, of North Bridg- 

 ton, had sent a fresh and very fine specimen of Habenaria 



