Hingham, Mass., August P.O, 1922. 



Dear Mr. Deane, 



I am back from my vacation and my longest business trrn, and excent for being 

 in Keene, IT. H. . for three days this week I shall be at home nights most of the time 

 for a month. Eaton's cards I find were mostly on Ericacea e, but only two or three 

 of them are of any special importance, and may not affect our ranges any. 



I will soon look over the copy you sent me before you went away, and then for- 

 ward it to Dr. Robinson. I had so much writing and other work to do in June and July 

 that I did not get to it. 



Vacation was good fun, but there was lots of work to be done and so we were 

 not as free to enjoy ourselves as we might have been. I was especially pleased to meet 

 Mr. John 0. Parlin for the first time. He has a thorough knowledge of Maine plants and 

 is a very interesting gentleman. I ddid not find much if anything, that was new to rm 

 in Maine, though I did a little collecting. 



My recent business trio to Burlington was as much funas our vacation, and 

 decidedly more restful. The Suoerintendents of the State met at the University there, 

 and the Summer School was still in session, so there were many pleasant people to inter- 

 view, and some festivities that we were invited to share. As we were there a solid 

 week I found time to sandwich in a good bit of botanical exploration, some of it in 

 Pringle's old territory around Charlocte and Shelburne. Mt. Philo, which I visited in 

 May, I climbed again, and explored more thorougljy, finding P olygonum Douglasi i to 

 reward me for my pains. There are many other interesting plants on the "mountain" 

 (968 feet). I also drove down to the mouth of the river La platte, where it empties 

 into Shelburne Bay, and here I found a wealth of vegetation. There were Scirpu s 

 fluviatilis and a tall S. Validu s species, S. american us of course, S. pedicellatus , 

 Rumex verticillat us (a very handsome species), As clepias incarnata, E lodea , and last but 

 not least, Radicula aauatica, a most surprising plant. It starts out like Hottonia, 

 changes to Proaeroinaca, and ends ur> with mustard flowers. I had never realized that 



