Josselyn Botanical Society of Maine. 
The Society will hold its Fifteenth Annual Meeting at the Peaks 
Island House, Peaks Island, Portland, June 28 to July 2, 1909. 
TRAIN AND HOTEL ARRANGEMENTS. 
Trains arrive at Portland from Bangor at 5.25 and 5.55 P. M. 
Trains arrive at Portland from Skowhegan and Farmington at 5.20 and 
5.35 P. M. 
Tickets should be purchased for Portland and return , at the usual 
reduced rates. These may be obtained at the usual stations, June 26 to 
29, good for return till July 10. 
At Union Station take red cars , taxicab or hack for the Casco Bay 
Line of Steamers, which leave Custom House Wharf for Jones' Landing. 
Allen’s Baggage Transfer Co., with office in Union Station, will 
deliver baggage at Custom House Wharf, where it must be transferred 
to Steamer. 
Special rate at Peaks Island House, $2.00 per day. Ralph B. Rowe, 
Manager, Post Office, Peaks Island, Maine. 
EXCURSIONS. 
The following excursions for collecting are suggested : One day to 
Pine Point and Old Orchard. Among the plants that may be found 
here are Artemisia Stelleriana, Artemisia caudata, Rumex persicarioides, 
Polygonum exsertum, Ophioglossum and Hudsouia. One day to Fal¬ 
mouth and Cumberland Foreside for Thalictrum dioicum, Hypericum 
maculatum, Carex brunnescens, Carex maritima, Carex rostrata, Carex 
retrorsa, and many others. One day at Cliff Island or Long Island, 
where may be found most of the shore plants, and Holcus lanatus, 
Elymus arenarius, Convolvulus repens, Veronica longifolia, Centaurea 
nigra, etc. 
Short trips may be made on Peaks Island, to the Cape shore, waste 
places of Portland for introduced plants, or other localities near by. 
Some member of the Society who is familiar with the locality will 
act as guide on each excursion. 
On Monday evening, June 28th, a short business meeting will be 
called at 8.30. 
On Tuesday evening, June 29th, an address will be given by Prof. 
Merritt Lyndon Fernald, of Cambridge, on “The New England Flora of 
the Future, or Changes in our Flora due to the Destruction of Forests.” 
The other evenings will be devoted to business of the Society and to 
informal talks by Prof. Fernald and others. 
Members who expect to attend are requested to report at once to 
Mr. Rowe, or Dr. D. W. Fellows, Y. M. C. A. Bldg., Portland, so that 
hotel arrangements may be completed. 
Edward B. Chamberlain, Secretary , 
Cumberland Center, Maine. 
June 16, 1909. 
