St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1917-07-25
MUSEUM NOTES.
Large Collection of Sedgcs and
Grasses Feature Flower Tables.

The special feature of the flower
tables this week is the unusually large
collection of local sedges and grasses.
The minute blossoms of these
species make them especially difficult
OF identification for the ordinary OBJ
server, but when one becomes inter-
ested in the study OF them, the field is
endless.
The orchids also occupy a promin-
with the passing Of the ladys slipper
the fringed orchids begin to appear.
The list since July 18th is: Heart
leaved umbrella wort, common St.
Johnswort, field bindweed, yellow
bedstraw (Barnet), great hedge bed
straw, or wild madden (BarneD,
July 18th: oak fern, red top, Scheu-
cheers arrow grass (Burke), andro-
media, pitcher plant, rose pogonia,
calopogon, rough fruited cinQuefoil,
black mustard, wild parsnip, henbit.
common -vetch, Clinton's crested
shield fern (Danville), July 18th;
cat-tail, broad leaved arrow head,
fruit of alder-leaved buckthorn. corn
spurrey, northern willow-herb. hare's
tail, reddish bulrush, Canada blue
grass July. 1sth;4 hemp nettle, Wild
latture, Canada. thistle, wild carrot,
lambs quarters, common or sweet
elder, staghorIi sumach, three toothed
cinquefoil (Mt.r. Mansfeld). mountain
sandwart,, smaller purple. fringed Or
CHS, July 20; crested marginal shield
fern, toad rush. pale green bulru$h.
monkey flower, braclyelytrum. frait
of iclasping Teaved twisted stalk, July
GARD: - ''t3.si .
Bird lovers will be interested ito
ki1aW that the winter wren CASUALLY
regarded : as a. rnigrant) has nestled
here this year. "A pair of adults and
three young were observed in an Ar
bor5 Vitae swamp July goth. This
species nests low, in moss. in cool Sc
Guided spots.
1.-The Fairbanks Museum will be open
forl the present from $40 a. m, until
4,:aO p. mi; week sdays, and Sundays
from 2.s0sto 500 p. m, standard time.
This change is made to better accom-
modate the public, especially the large
nt,mbe of travellers and summer
VISITORS. 81 2 - ly '3-. :sf ~
The flower tables at the Museum
are. showing alarge and varied col
lection Of native wild flowers. Sixty
list since. July tsth, the most unusual
being the Moonwort Fern (Botry-
lschium sslunariaJ Tor which only one
previous statidnahas been recorded in
Vermont TWAS found growing spar
ingly within the town limit. thus add
ing anotherzrafes. plant to the already
long list of local species. -.
The list since July 9th is: Moon
wort fern. long beech fern, crested
shield fern, spinulose shield fern, dull
chium, giant bryum moss, beach pea,
Mass. coast) black alder, sweet gale,
spiny-leaved SOW thistle, daisy flea
bane, field thistle, dusty miller (Mass.
coast). ragged robin (Danville). tufted
loosestrife, moneywort.- fruit of dew
berry, climbing bittersweet, sweet
| scented water lily. white water crow
foot, water persicaria, white ayens
yellow avens, meadow-sweet, silvery
cinquefoil. small cranberry, one-sided
| wintergreen, smaller sided winter
| green, shin leaf. round leaved winter
green. stiff club moss, type trailing
Christmas green, pondweed, fruit OF
| mountain fly honeysuckle, July 18th;
herds grass, danes violet rocket, reed
canary grass. rattlesnake grass, woody
| sedge, pinweed (Barnet), small bed
straw, common milkweed, July 18th;
spinulose fern, thin grass. sleeps
fescue, sallow sedge, climbing false
bnckwheat, fruit of hop-hornbeam
hedge bindweed, clammy ground
cherry. July 18th; wild yellow lily,
fruit of red baneberry. fruit of red
elder, tall or glandular cinquefoil
wild onion. pale spiked lobelia, hairy
pancicum, COW wheat, horseweed
musk mallows. great or spiked will
lowherb. yellow melilot, white melilot
great laurel or rose bay (Groton)
straw berry blight. smaller forgetzme-
not, green adder's mouth, adder's
tongue fern. American water penny
| wort. fruit of smooth gooseberry