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Pirns strohus (white pine), scattered along, most abundant at 
Heron Lake. 
Pinus resinosa (red pine), Telos and Grand Lake, a little after¬ 
wards here and there. 
Abies balsamea (balsam fir), perhaps the most common tree, es¬ 
pecially in the upper parts of rivers. 
Abies nigra (black or double spruce), next to the last the most 
common, if not equally common, and on mountains. 
Abies alba (white or single spruce), common with the last along 
the rivers. 
Pinus BanJcsiana (gray or Northern scrub-pine), a few on an 
island in Grand Lake. 
Twenty-three in all (23). 
2. Small Trees and Shrubs. 
Prunus depressa (dwarf-cherry), on gravel bars, East Branch, near 
Hunt’s, with green fruit, obviously distinct from the pumila of river 
and meadows. 
Vaccinium corymbosum (common swamp blueberry), Bucksport. 
Vaccinium Canadense (Canada blueberry), carries and rocky hills 
everywhere as far south as Bucksport. 
Vaccinium Pennsylvanicum (dwarf-blueberry ?), Whetstone Ealls. 
Betulapumila (low birch), Mud Pond Swamp. 
Prinos verticillata (black alder, ’57), now placed with Ilex by 
Gray, 2d ed. 
Cephalanthus occidentalis (button-bush). 
Prunus Pennsylvania (wild red cherry), very common at camps, 
carries, &c., along rivers; fruit ripe August 1, 1857. 
Prunus Virginiana (choke-cherry), river-side, common. 
Cornus alternifolia (alternate-leaved cornel), West Branch, 1853. 
Ribes prostratum (fetid currant), common along streams, on Web¬ 
ster Stream. 
Sambucus Canadensis (common elder), common along river¬ 
sides. 
Sambucus pubens (red-berried elder), not quite so common, road¬ 
sides toward Moosehead, and on carries afterward, fruit beautiful. 
Ribes lacustre (swamp-gooseberry), swamps, common, Mud Pond 
Swamp and Webster Stream; not ripe July 29, 1857. 
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