Bailey 1836, and Jackson, 1838, placing ail possible emphasis on the
scanty botanical notes contained in their published accounts, and
gives a geographical description of the mountain, with reference to its
satellites to the north and west. His description of the summit of the
mountain from Mount Russell to Monument Peak is evidently the
first to appear in print, excepting the more scattered notes of his
associates, Laski and Thurber, published a few months earlier. In
addition to the nomenclature proposed by Dr. Young, noted above, he
coined the term "saxetum" for the rocky slopes of the peaks, a term
for which the "alpine fell field"' of recent application seems more or
less synonymous.
  April 27, "The Coast and Islands," has been sufficiently noticed.
  May 4, "Forests of York County, Species of Oaks,"
enumerates eight species, which are distinguished as Quercus alba, Q.
bicolor, Q. montana, Q. ilicifolia, Q. rubra, Q. borcalis, Q. coccinca, Q.
tinctoria, (= vrlutina), and Q. chinquapina (prinoides). The last from
the foliage was at first considered to be young plants of Quercus
montana, but finding it with mature acorns, combined with low
shrubby habit, Dr. Young finally identified it as above. This he
states, he found mingled with the bear oak "on arid sandy plains of
Alfred." This species has not been found in Maine in recent years.
  That Aaron Young had been a frequent visitor in Alfred previous
to the time of his survey is indicated by a note in his "Diarium"
appearing in the "Touchstone," October 11, 1854, when on passing
through that town in his cart, "The Good Samaritan" he observed,
" We were married here and never regretted it."
  May 18. Though this instalment bears no title suggestive of its
contents, the journal of field work is resumed giving accounts of the
Chestnut, Butternut, Shagbark, the Hazels, Rhododendron maximum
and Kalmia latifolia, both of which the author found in York County,
(and again references are made to the occurrence of the latter at
Cherryfield and at Isle Au Haut); of the Sassafras, Fever Bush (Ben-
zoin) and Stellaria aquatica (= S. uliginosa) which Aaron was asked
to examine at "a vale of springs" in Alfred where the plant grew with
such luxuriance that it often choked the outlet of the stream from the
springs and "defied extirpation."
  May 25. Concluded. (excursion to Kennebunk Beach.)
  In the report of this survey, as printed in the Maine Farmer, there
are mentioned a total of ninety-seven plants, including three algae,
  1 1919: Harshberger, Geogr. Rev. 7: 233.


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