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BULLETIN OF THE NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY. 
BOTANIZING IN NEW BRUNSWICK. 
Professors M. L. Fernald and K. M. Wiegand make the 
following interesting notes in Rhodora, of June, 1910: On August 
6th we reached Ingleside, on the St. John in the parish of West- 
field, about four miles below the mouth of the Nerepis. We were 
very obviously in the St. John Valley, for in the rich alluvium of 
the river were many plants familiar from above St. Francis to 
Woodstock. A fine specimen was found of Acer rubrum L., 
var. tridens Wood (previously unknown north of Auburndale, 
Massachusetts), and in short walks in the neighborhood other 
notable plants were seen — Panicum tennesseense Ashe, P. impli- 
cation Scribner, Glyceria laxa Scribner and Lycopodium sab- 
inaefolium Willd. 
One afternoon and evening were given to a sail up the lower 
reaches of the St. John and the quiet winding channel of the 
Nerepis River. The meadows along this stream were luxuriant 
to a degree and we longed for more time than was available 
to explore them. Shoulder-high stood a dense thicket of Scirpus 
pedicellaris Fernald, N. cyperinus (L.) Kunth, var. pelius Fernald, 
Zizania aquatica L., Sparganium eurycarpum Engelm, and other 
marsh plants not generally known from so far east ; and in deep 
water, forming broad dense islands nearly covered at high tide 
but rising at low tide, a meter above the surface, stood acres of 
clumps of Scripus fluviatilis (Torr.) Gray, a stately bulrush once 
reported as growing at Perry, Maine, but heretofore unverified 
from east of the lower Merrimac. About Passamaquoddy Bay 
we had grown callous to the attractions of Potentilla palustris 
(L.) Scop., var. villosa (Pers.) Lehm., but at twilight a beau- 
tiful silvery variation of the species was found on the Nerepis 
marshes and a single specimen taken in the dim light “for local- 
ity,” under the impression that it was var. villosa. Later, how- 
ever, too late to return for more, it proved to be var. subsericea 
Becker (the first station known to us in America) a very beauti- 
ful plant, worthy a place among cultivated semi-aquatics. 
