page [66] 22-29 Jul butterflies & trees (seq. 68)

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Grandstone Neck, Winter Harbor, Maine
1901
July 22-29
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Butterflies and Trees.

Butterflies
I saw but three species of Butterflies
on the Neck. Physiodes tharos, The Pearl
Crescent, Argynnis cybele, the Great
Spangled Fritillary, and Heodes hypophleas,
The American Copper. I saw but
little of the two latter, but tharos was very
abundant everywhere. Butterflies excepting
tharos were very scarce during my visit
especially as compared with my week in 1899.

Trees.

I observed carefully the Trees of Grand-
stone Neck and in various walks I
covered the ground pretty well. The Neck
is about 3/4 of a mile lon gand perhaps
2/3 of a mile borad where it is widest.
A road runs from the center, north and
south at the very point. It is over
one hundred feet high at the highest
part of the ridge; the Neck slopes
evenly in every direction. At least two
thirds of the neck is covered by woods, the
Red Spruce being the prevailing tree. The
White Spruce is common too and it is
very abundant in the surrounding
country. I saw but one small
clump of White Pine, near the Casino,
Arbor Vitae is distributed all over the
Neck and there are a number of