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By a Stream in Vermont, a Glimpse of a Plant Last Seen a Century Ago

“Are you sitting down?” Vermont’s state botanist asked a fellow plant expert after spotting false mermaid-weed last month.

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For those who rarely search for anything beyond a misplaced set of keys or a cellphone, the life of a botanist might look impossibly poetic: combing through fields of wildflowers or perusing mossy riverbanks in search of elusive plants with names like handsome sedge and rough false pennyroyal.

The whimsical image fit when the state of Vermont announced last month that a plant thought to be locally extinct — false mermaid-weed — had been found through a chain of events that seemed stolen from a fairy tale.

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I saw that. Some years back, before selling some land to the state, I had a vegetation survey done by a local naturalist and he found a rare sedge in one of the vernal pools. It occurs in only one other site in MA. He was similarly transported.

[Scott G.]

On a trip to Vermont, I spotted a Subaru 360 is good condition,
neat to see one in their original habitat.