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' *, fae x ee ca glt Pa es 4 a feet ta fry vey jal or Fiat FI ay Ye , * * ; \ ore 7 hi 2 ar, 4 — . ‘mote Lae ace F PLY eta aad en ee} MAY 9 1921 JOINT BULLETINS NOS. 4 AND 5 Vermont Botanical and Bird Clubs APRIL, 1919. _ Published Annually by the Clubs BURLINGTON FREE PRESS PRINTING COMPANY 1919 OFFICERS PRESIDENT, Ezra Brainerd, Middlebury. VICE-PRESIDENT, Harry F. Perkins, Burlington. SECRETARY, George P. Burns, Burlington. TREASURER, Mrs. Nellie F. Flynn, Burlington. EDITOR OF BULLETIN, George L. Kirk, Rutland. VERMONT BOTANICAL. AND BIRD CLUBS Joint Bulletins Nos. 4 and 5 April, 1919 One copy of this bulletin is sent to each member. Extra copies of this as well as copies of previous bulletins may be obtained of Mrs. Flynn at Burlington for 10 cents each. TABLE OF CONTENTS RR ets eg Ce ore acted 2 bi ails Walp chelated Siac A mm Sate MIE obese al veue * 4 SAGE ta) ALCINONE. Gelo cies flees oie as vee Wiles ald ona eee REE eR Cees ao nt 4 eermins Of the, Chips were F.. Riyin™) 05. 2... ac oe ees + eA bes 5 Plants New to Vermont Collected at Woodstock, Nellie F. Flynn..... < Additions to West River Valley Flora, Leston A. Wheeler........... 8 Along Highway and Cross-Country in Oklahoma, Alice E. Bacon..... 8 Basen Observation of Birds, Mrs. A. B. Morgaw . 6.0.6.2. 6a eae es: 12 Golden-Winged Warblers Summering in Rutland, Duane E. Kent....15 Some New Stations for Rare Plants in Northeastern Vermont, Inez PIE EIOWE «5 STE CP EAS. EE oe 2 ere as owes 15 Four Summer Meetings of the Hartland Nature Club, Mrs. A. B. SUMMED MED ete es ONS aids, Sig it eec a Wn. a: ow & S69 Mise OLR ae sacs ute et es es 19 A Word Concerning Xanthiums, Nellie F. Flynn................... 20 ee EMCI CSIP ACAD. gC dns sb ewe ao S eke De eGR EOE os Meee 21. Bird Lists Records for St. Johnsbury, 1917, Inez Addie Howe.......... | PORCH SPIRO Rae ot... 2k, | MN EE od ob ayes o aha ars oak ees Sethe 25 Bird Migration at Stamford, Mary A. Sanford ii .j2..0.053. 0/20. Shadex 25 iid, natland. List. .. se hee eee Feb. 5 May 22 Hudsonian Chickadee ............ Wen. “SE 71 eek tee FITC CMEC tie ds «= ss hee ae Feb. 24 Mar. 22 American: Osea |. ows. eae anes Feb. 25 Dec 7 PETVOPICEE TIT oss ose cw chee eet Mar. 4 Oct. 24 Cedar . Wak Witty... ¢3: Anr 19 Aug. 22 Paice is ee ere eh ives ales se ee Apr. 129 Oct. i Snarpsiinned Hawk. .<.. 6.0028 ...90e Apr. 19 Sept. 11 Hetil Peden. 3.562 SA Apr. 20 Oct. 6 Sacer ha... CP IR Apre 2's oie Winter. Wee 268)... 00. SAS Apr. 21 Sept. 24 White-throated Sparrow .......... Apr. 22 Oct: 16 Belted . Kinefisher. 72. . sc. Geis Apr. 22 Sept. 30 Rnglish @tariinge:. 2¢.55.625 ee Apr. ' 22 Sept. 5 Myrtis AWWVarbler :.3 «tev bi. RVR Apr. 22 2 Bee" AZ Chipping Sparrow. ..2.05 4 Gea Apr. 23 Nov. 3 Least Piyceteher iii. tS oenee. Apr. 23 Aug. 22 VERMONT BOTANICAL AND BIRD CLUBS RETO, BOTCON Be fic aise 5: 2 vn PG) ois enmpetsh ake Apr. me, “WAPrDICL 2 < ojc's < «dees © xinett .. ) Apr. Pe TOW. WAL DICT), os <:4,0 00a Sielaravents «s May PREG: SV ALO |, oo. «sale cies «'syaetAoes May Seer = (WL LOWES cose a xcs diets « eee 2 May NE SLO ic ala ea rth a wien ku May White-crowned Sparrow .......... May Black and White Warbler ........ May Peericam Osprey: if .ea oe es sre die’s « May Bine-headed Vireo .. 2. . 240. c 4 May RPHEGOM Ve TOMBrs os oie aca kOe, d barca ® a. May Pane Way WAPrDler: «snc du 6 deaueyeid. BA cee a ReG-oyed “Vireo fe naies Heise Vive June 2 Sept. 7 Red-shouldered Hawk ............ ae 2 Ne ed ee Yellow-bellied Flycatcher ......... aes od) >) Se eee Mourning Werbler ..... is... 45 eis Fone a! Oe an ae Trails Wiséatener..... os eee wd ste + G '* . Pt ay ae OW 5 etait kn diehetnin ce Sa ty ee Pune 738 Sa ten WOLOr PRPUBE ON bs cuiees ot wares eee dane: 3. "9S Ve ee Wilson 8 Warmier: ...+..%.s ieee Pues Sr ae ae ates Rough-terred Hawk ... os... evens Suhel ! "pee eee Witland PIever’ .s ee ne Pee eee SUNG ONT FP! PLE ees Worm-eating Warbler ............. sunelge < .. . MIM LAR ens POPDle MTC Os ois cnn us oe eee Sy. BGs * ty SOPPORE aes Least Bama per ss... eS ot eee Aas LG ST Fe Se rae Yellow-bilted ‘Cuckoo .i cbc ve. v8 Sep Os +) OS) eee Americal Bittern a4. 00h spires d Bopt. FS: 0's" * ORR As ws Wood “TRarish.’). 00 cae ie deere Oct. 12 A> VAG Ie shateras American Merganser ............-:. INOW 2a ei 48) Obyes via VERMONT BOTANICAL AND BIRD CLUBS 79) The above record is the second for the occurrence of the ceru- lean warbler at St. Johnsbury. The worm-eating warbler is an equally unusual record for Vermont. There is a specimen of this bird in the Fairbanks museum collection which was taken at St. Johnsbury. The olive-backed thrush is rare at St. Johnsbury. The record for the duck hawk is the first for St. Johnsbury as is that of the greater yellow : legs. NOTES FOR 1918 Few winter birds were observed during the extremely cold weather of the winter of 1917-1918. A flock of greater redpolls were seen about St. Johnsbury from March 3 to 12, inclusive. These were the only unusual winter visitors that I recorded. White-winged cross- bills were seen in small flocks April 2 to 6. On June 8 I saw a pair of rough-winged swallows in a mixed flock of barn and eave swallows. I saw them again on the 9th and a third time on the 21st of June. The last time they were alone. Three black-crowned night hercns were seen and heard on the shore of a small pond near the village on the evening of August 26th. On August 28 the unusual number of five yellow-billed cuckoos were seen feeding together on tent caterpillars on a wayside tree. One Hudsonian chickadee was observed in a deep, dark cedar swamp on October 24. During the present month, January, 1919, one has appeared four times at my feeding table with other chickadees. The first St. Johnsbury record for a snowy owl was made on De- cember 4, when I observed one in a Swampy woods near one of our remote rural schools. Pine and evening grosbeaks appeared early in November, 1918, and are still very numerous January 27, 1919. BIRD MIGRATION AT STAMFORD Mary A. Sanford January, 1917: Bluejays, chicadees, tree sparrows. February: Pine grosbeaks, nuthatches, horned larks, snow bunt- ings. March: 9, crows; 20, starlings; 21, bluebirds, downy woodpeckers; : 24, robins; 25, rusty blackbirds, phoebes, meadowlarks; 26, juncos; 29, song sparrows; 31, bronze grackles. 26 JOINT BULLETINS 4 AND 5 April: 11, brown creepers; 19, yellow redpoll warblers; 22, flickers. May: 3, barn swallows, chipping sparrows, white-throated spar- rows; 7, myrtle warbler; 9, purple finches; 15, tree swallows, field sparrows, bobolinks; 17, bank swallows; 18, chimney swifts, least fly- catchers; 19, catbirds, white-crowned sparrows; 20, redstarts, chestnut- sided warblers, blackburnian warblers, magnolia warblers, black and white warblers, pine warblers, black-throated blue warblers, black- throated green warblers, ovenbirds, rose-breasted grosbeaks, brown thrashers, kingbirds; 238, Baltimore orioles, goldfinches, quail, vesper sparrows; 26, Wilson’s thrushes, Maryland yellow-throats, spotted sand- pipers, eave swallows, red-winged blackbirds; 30, bay-breasted warblers, scarlet tanagers; 31, indigo buntings, blackpoll warblers. Pine grosbeaks were observed April 21, 1916, a very late date. THE RUTLAND LIST The Rutland migration list was kept as usual by D. E. Kent, G. H. Ross and G. L. Kirk. It showed 153 species for 1917 and 122 for 1918. Records of especial interest are mentioned elsewhere in this Bulletin. UTILIZATION OF OUR NATIVE FRUITS © Mrs. A. B. Morgan The piquant flavor of all compounds made from native fruits comes quite as much from the delight of gathering them as from serv- ing the final product, and when their sparkling color or rich spiciness adds to a winter’s meal, June fields or autumn’s glory seem to have been caught and held for the occasion. It has been my privilege to experiment successfully with the useful side of our native fruits, and it occurs to me that others might like a brief guide in following a similar course. I begin the last week in June in my campaign and gather shad berries, taking them before they are fully ripe, both for their better cooking qualities and to get ahead of the birds. From them I prefer to make shad berry pie which is made like that of blueberry with a cup of sugar, a tablespoonful of flour and a generous pinch of salt. Cooked slowly and well in a crisp crust, the result is truly delicious. Perchance when you are out in search of these berries, you will find little beds of pasture strawberries glowing with fruit, and can gather enough for the first shortcake. It is hardly necessary to tell anyone how to use wild strawberries, but last year when we had literally eo ae. ah PS VERMONT BOTANICAL AND BIRD CLUBS eh bushels of them at “The Highlands,” I bottled juice to combine later with currant and apple juice in the proportion of 3 parts strawberry to one of currant and two parts strawberry to one of apple. As is well known, in all jelly making the active principle called pectin must be present and may be supplied by using apple juice made from the pulp, skin and cores, or by using the white portion of orange peel that has been allowed to stand and then boiled in water. If at any time I have fruit juice that I wish to combine later with apple, I bot- tle it and then make the jelly fresh when I want it, the flavor and quality being then prime. This year I kept both apple and cherry juice till Christmas when I made it up to be served with several different Christmas dinners, the color being a sparkling, holly-berry red. In the same way I have used the juice of the pin cherry, and that from choke cherry when combined with an equal quantity of apple juice and flavored with favorite spices, makes a delicious venison jelly. Thorn apples, especially the fruit of macrosperma, the variety that grows so abundantly here, combined with tart apple juice makes a product of fine substance, and only surpassed in coloring by that made from the high bush cranberry. The fruit of this latter must be gathered before it is dead ripe and may be used alone or in combination. The flavor is marked, some say bitter, but has long been regarded of medicinal value, as well as has the elderberry which makes a wine- colored, sweet jelly, or, if preferred, a spiced wine that mellows with age and is good for invalids. The general rule for making wine from blackberries, grapes or elder- berries is this: Cover fruit with cold water and let stand 24 hours. Crush and strain, adding 3 pounds of sugar to 1 gallon of juice. Put it into wide- mouthed jars and skim frequently for several weeks, next put into cask till March and then strain and bottle. I have blackberry wine that has been kept for many years and possesses a rich flavor as well as a tonic quality. Blackberry-apple jelly is mild and pleasant and especially good to serve with sponge cake, while raspberry-currant jelly made in the proportion of 2 to 1 reaches, in my judgment, the highest state of jelly perfection. Plain raspberry juice sweetened to make a rich syrup may be bot- tled and used as a refreshing drink with the addition of spring water. If preferred, shrub or raspberry vinegar made by the addition of equal quantities of vinegar, berries and sugar may be used instead. Barberries cooked with sweet apples make a rich orange-red jelly which does not require so much sugar as most other fruit juices. Frost grapes make ; 28 Jotnt BULLETINS 4 AND 5 a racy flavored juice and I prefer to sweeten it “the pint to the pound” to add to its richness and keeping qualities. Apple-grape jelly, 3 to 1, is of much better substance than when the grape is used alone. Care should be taken in not cooking the grapes beyond the point where the juice flows freely. Catchup made of 2 quarts of mashed grapes, enough vinegar to cover, heated and strained, then cooked with 1 cup of sugar, a teaspoonful each of cinnamon and cloves, and a dash of red pepper, ~ makes a savory dressing. In my childhood one of the yearly events was to go to a swamp each August to gather the smooth gooseberry that grew in such quan- tities that big pailfuls were carried home, where my mother made rich preserves of them to be served later when we came home hungry from school. To the memory of that flavor and those bright days of family berrying parties may perhaps be ascribed my present delight in these little excursions with our native fruits. NOTES SOME EXTRALIMITAL RECORDS Examination of a series of bulletins on bird migration, issued by the United States Bureau of Biological Survey, shows a number of extra- limital records for the occurrence of birds in this state which have not been published in Vermont literature. They are as follows: Wood ibis, Williston, 1897, G. H. Perkins; snowy egret, St. Albans, October, 1890, C. D. Howe; sandhill crane, Lunenburg, Perkins and Howe; long- tailed jaeger, West Castleton, September 7, 1877, Howe. WINTER RECORD FOR MOURNING DOVE According to Dr. Lucretius H. Ross of Bennington, a mourning dove was observed at Shaftsbury January 8, 1919. Robins, meadowlarks and sparrow hawks wintered at Bennington during the season of 1918-19. Success IN TAMING CHICKADEES Miss Jessie Gilman of Pomfret succeeded in taming chickadees until they would alight on her head and hands to get food. WHITE ForM OF LADY’s SLIPPER Sylvia H. Bliss of East Calais reports the finding of a group of pure white Cypripedium hirsutum. She writes: “There are two small clumps of this white lady’s slipper’ in a swamp in the northeastern part of Calais. They grow in company with a large number of the VERMONT BOTANICAL AND BIRD CLUBS 29 showy lady’s slipper, and I have found them at least three different seasons, one with an interval of a year or two between them when I[ did not visit the spot. They are vigorous and very beautiful. ADDITION TO VERMONT HEPATIC LIST Miss Annie Lorenz of Hartford, Conn., writes of the finding of the hepatic, Varsupella Sullivantii (De Not) Evans at Mount Mansfield in July, 1917. This is new to Vermont. NEw STATION FOR PANICUM TSUGETORUM Panicum tsugetorum Nash has been found growing in Tinmouth by Dana S. Carpenter of Middletown Springs. The plant was determined by Prof. A. S. Hitchcock. The site was a gravelly-clay roadside. BOHEMIAN WAXWINGS AT HARTLAND On October 30, 1917, a flock of Bohemian waxwings numbering 100 or more, visited “Sky Farm,” Hartland, Vt., Miss Nancy Darling’s home, for mountain ash berries, and the next day, when they returned, Mrs. A. B. Morgan was present to observe their feeding. They kept them- selves in three squads—one in the ash tree eating berries and two on maple trees in the grove keeping watch. While feeding they were constantly shifting their positions, and some of the birds frequently lifted their wings in such a manner as to show white along the back edges of each wing. While settling down upon the ash trees, the birds made an odd squeaking sound of satisfaction and all the time while feeding they uttered little notes that implied contentment. Some years previously a flock of half a dozen or so visited the farm. AN INTERESTING ORCHID A rarely beautiful flowering of the large coral root orchis Coral- lorrhiza maculata was observed by Miss Darling and a visiting botanist while searching in Finley Glen, Hartland, on July 30, 1917, for Haben- aria macrophylla. The plants occurred both singly and in groups, but all in full bloom, and some of the spikes, a foot or more high, were so crowded as to convey a sense of opulence. The butterfly form of the flow- ers suggested insects and rendered the plants almost uncanny, though very beautiful in their rose and madder-purple coloring. At the heart of each blossom was a spot of yellow dotted with magenta—the little column, which gave life and lustre to the whole. At first these leafless orchids were scarcely noticeable in the um derbrush among the brown leaves of a former season, but, one by one, 30 JOINT BULLETINS 4 AND 5 they appeared, after careful search, rising before the vision almost magically, sometimes alone, sometimes in clusters, and exhaling a subtle fragrance as of violets. It seems nothing short of a miracle that such beauty and delicacy can be developed from the defunct roots and leaves of other plants, with only here and there a ray of light. ANOTHER NELSON’S SPARROW RECORD Nelson’s sparrow, of which a note has been previously published in the bulletin, has appeared at Rutland in three consecutive seasons. The dates are: October 8, 1916; October 2, 1917; October 10, 1918. (Kirk. ) BARROW’'S GOLDENEYE IN VERMONT A number of specimens of Barrow’s goldeneye, the western form of the whistler duck, were collected on Lake Champlain during the fall of 1917. Birds in the hands of hunters were seen by D. E. Kent and G. L. Kirk. Bic FLIGHT OF SHOREBIRDS There was a heavy flight of shorebirds at East Pittsford pond on September 15, 1917. Among the species taken which are unusual in Vermont except on Lake Champlain were a black-bellied plover, semi- palmated plover, pectoral sandpiper, least sandpiper and semi-palmated sandpiper. (F. L. Osgood.) CORMORANTS IN THIS STATE A double-crested cormorant was shot at Lake Bomoseen on October 14, 1917. On the same day two were observed at Bridport on Lake Champlain. There are very few records for this bird in the state. A LAGGARD TEAL A blue-winged teal was shot at Lake Bomoseen November 6, 1917. This duck is seldom seen in Vermont after September. LATE DATES FOR MIGRANTS Because of the continued mild weather migratory birds remained unusually late in northern New England during 1918. Some interest- ing records from Rutland when the last of the given species were seen are as follows: Whippoorwill and brown thrasher, September 23; October 3, black-throated blue, bay-breasted and black and white warbler; October 20, catbird; November 2, ruby-crowned kinglet; No- vember 21, rusty blackbird. ; VERMONT BOTANICAL AND BirRD CLUBS 31 CALIFORNIA PLANTS DEFY JACK FROST Mrs. Mary A. Loveland of Norwich writes: “A package of wild flower seeds sent me from California gave much pleasure as the plants grew well and blossomed. To my surprise they withstood frost better than some of our cultivated annuals. A bouquet was picked in Novem- ber. Among those identified were the California poppy, phacelia, lupine and clarkia.” NEW SELAGINELLA STATION Harold G. Rugg of Hanover, N. H., collected Selaginella apus at Reading in August, 1918. This is the third Vermont station. Mr. Rugg also reports a new station for Aspidium filiz-mas concern- ing which he writes: “It may be well to record my station for the male fern in Rochester. The plants were growing at an elevation of 2,400 feet and very near some plants of Aspidiwm spinulosum. They were beside an old road which leads from the Rochester-Randolph gap to the ruined summit house on top of Mount Cushman. NEW STATION FOR EQUISETUM PRATENSE Clarence H. Knowlton of Hingham, Mass., while touring Vermont last summer (1918) called on J. G. Underwood at Hartland. Together they visited that famous botanical ground, Hart Island, and in the alluvial, sandy land on the bluff at the upper end of the island, under shrubs and vines, they collected an equisetum which Mr. Knowlton stated he believed was E. pratense. This identification has been con- firmed by Prof. M. L. Fernald. NESTING OF BROWN CREEPER D. E. Kent of Rutland writes as follows in regard to the nesting of the brown creeper: “Nesting brown creepers are considered rare in and near Rutland county. Some half dozen years ago I found a nest at Pine’s pond near Lake Bomoseen, where flooding had killed good sized trees. This was the only locality in which I had ever seen the bird in the nesting period until the spring of 1917 when I found them to be common about Chittenden dam in Chittenden. On June 1, 1918, Owen Durfee of Fall River, Mass., G. L. Kirk of Rutland and the writer were at the reservoir formed by the dam and we found that there were probably 10 to 12 pairs of creepers nesting in a flooded forest. Inunda- tion had caused the death of many large trees and in those which were in just the right stage of decay the bark hung loosely, forming ideal conditions for the peculiar homes of these birds. We found one nest containing six partly incubated egegs.”’ 2 JOINT BULLETINS 4 AND 5 IN MEMORIAM MRS. NELLIE HART WOODWORTH Harold Goddard Rugg Mrs. Nellie Hart Woodworth, a member of the Vermont Bird Club _ for many years, died March 12, 1918 at Sarasota, Fla. Mrs. Woodworth was born in East Berkshire, Vt., August 17, 1847. She spent a large part of her life in East Berkshire and in St. Albans. She remained in Florida during the winter for the last few years but always returned to Vermont for the summer. The last meeting of the club which she at- tended was the one at Franklin. Mrs. Woodworth contributed many articles on birds to various magazines and to the Boston Transcript. She also wrote bird poems which were published. She was an intimate friend of John Burroughs and at her death he said: “I can indeed pay a heartfelt tribute to my friend for many years, Mrs. Nellie Hart Woodworth, whose recent death comes to me with a distinct feeling of loss. I know her to have been a woman of fine mind and a warm womanly heart. She had a rare gift for making friends and keeping them. She was a sincere lover of nature and knew the birds as well as her dearest friends.” a. a ELROY KENT George L. Kirk Elroy Kent of East Wallingford, who was affiliated with the Ver- mont Botanical Club since the first years of its existence, died suddenly at his home January 29, 1918. During more than 30 years of his busy life as a farmer, Mr. Kent devoted such spare time as he had at his de- mand to the pursuit of his hobby, botany. His home being unusually well situated for studying a well-varied flora, he thoroughly explored the ter- ritory for miles around and he accumulated an herbarium which is complete from a local standpoint. This collection, which is of especial interest in that it represents the floras of Spectacle Pond and other cold ponds and bogs, is still at Mr. Kent’s late home. While the higher forms of plants were the subjects of Mr. Kent’s chief study, he also took a great interest in lichens and fungi. Mr. Kent is survived by two sons, Duane E. Kent of Rutland and Wyatt A. Kent of Contact, Nev., and a daughter, Mrs. R. H. Mahaffy of Wallingford. 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