General obsorva uions. 
Maine ^Lake Urnbagog ). 
Pound a fine young hop horn-bean near the Lake 
shore and identified Viburnum d entatum, V. opulus (now in 
bloom and very beautiful with its cymes edged v/x th snowy 
sterile flowers); the nine-bark, here called hard-hack, 
and the Ledum lati foli um . The latter grows in matted 
bods on rocky points just above high ater mark. 
The reaches of this retired stream v/'oro very beauti¬ 
ful in the afternoon light; in places, v/horo the banks 
wore high and steep, graceful ferns hung over the water, 
while the quiet pools beneath v/ero studded with the 
leaves and blossoms of both the large and small Yellov,’- 
water-lilios, The growth along the river bottom is 
chiefly black ash, eli.i, and ohe usual coniforae. Of 
the latuor familt the v/hite-spruco v/as ropi<tS3n&ed by 
numerous fine specimens. Alders fringed the stream 
vhiereever its margin v/as low and swampy, and the snowy 
I' blossoms of an occasional Virburn u m opulus .stood out in 
i; strong relief against the wall of green foliage behind, 
ji The Balm of Gilead tree is found in a 'wild state about 
|; the Lake; and Alva Goolidge tells me uha o it occurs 
i; sparingly over the surrounding regiony often miles from 
i any clearing. 
Sept. 3, |- The foliage in the botch sliowing patches of bright 
; coloring among the dark evergreon but at the I^ake the 
woods are as yet unchanged. The larches are ragged and 
Ij nearly bare, being infested by a small v/orm never soon 
|j here before. 
“ 3. ' Paddled down river this evening. Shortly after 
,i sunset vGreat Blue -erons began to arrive from the Mppor 
|| Cambridge, circling majestically high in air, then sweep - 
) ing dovrn and alighting on the muddy shallows. Next a 
pair of Wilson’s Snipo rose ^rom the ite rsh an del imbed 
|| the rosy western sky until lost in the gloom above, 
liwhence their hoarse scaipe came back through the still 
I air. Occasionally .[ heard the quack of some wandering 
jBlaek Duck or the lisping whistle of a flock of bolatod 
|LGast Sandpipers, v/hilo the Great 'orons hanked harshly 
!ias they joined their feeding comrades. Prom the dis- 
Gtant woods the crackling voice of the hyla came almost 
.incessantly. I also hoard a White-throated and a Swamp 
!|Sparrow singing. 
18D0-,. j 
June 17. 
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5. ii 
Paddling up the Cambridge River after dark this eve¬ 
ning the v/hole air soornod alive with Waders, most of 
them Solita.ry Sandpipers and "Poops-'’, invisible in the 
darkness, but readily recognizable by their characteris¬ 
tic notes. Yfe also hoard tv/o §nipe and saw several 
Ducks flying lakeward. 
