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glance as we traveled through field and wood and 

 swamp. But the discovery of this station for B. 

 ramosum was not to be credited to Mr. Eaton's sharp 

 eves, but rather to his assiduity and energy in making 

 explorations, which was another of his striking char- 

 acteristics. 



The station was phenomenal. The plants grew in a 

 very deep leaf mold, nearly at the foot of a somewhat 

 steep hillside, and covered an area of about twenty- 

 live hundred square feet, with some outlying plants. 

 Within this area they grew almost as thickly as grass, 

 and excepting the tall trees, swamp oak and red maple, 

 almost to the exclusion of any other form of vegeta- 

 tion. 



We traveled from Seabrook to Kensington with a 

 horse and wagon. Mr. Eaton took along a pile of 

 newspapers, and collected between eleven and twelve 

 hundred specimens with no apparent diminution in the 

 supply. Many of these plants were fifteen inches in 

 height, some were eighteen inches. 



I visited this station the next season. June 19. 

 1898 and the plants then presented a fine appearance. 

 Mr. Eaton was with me again and together we made 

 a circuit of the hill in search of other stations or 

 plants of ramosum but we found none. This station 

 for ramosum was on the southeast side of the hill, 

 very near a road and quite near the junction of two 

 roads, with no intervening wall or fence. All about 

 the hill was cleared or cultivated land, so that the 

 winds coming from any direction had a good sweep. 



Directly opposite that part of the hill where the 

 ramosum grew, that is on the opposite side of the 

 road, was a farm house. The occupant of this house 

 in the summer of 1S98 largely increased his flock of 



