1900] Bacon, Orchids of eastern Vermont 171 
ing the characters of C. virescens and C. arctata. In foliage and 
pubescence like the former, but in inflorescence much nearer the 
latter species. 
NEW OR RARE PLANTS FROM POWNAL, VERMONT. — Pownal, which 
has furnished so many records of southern and western plants in Ver- 
mont, was visited the last of May, and a number of species new to 
the state were found. 
Cornus florida, L., reported by Dr. J. W. Robbins in 1829, from 
Castleton, and since reported in other parts of southern Vermont, but 
unrepresented by herbarium specimens, was there collected. 
Anemonella thalictroides, Spach, reported from ‘southern Ver- 
mont” in Perkins’s Flora, was found growing abundantly with Ranun- 
culus hispidus, Michx., about the hills of North Pownal. The latter 
species has undoubtedly been mistaken many times for A. fascicularis, 
Muhl. 
Other noteworthy plants found at the same time were Ranunculus 
bulbosus, L., R. abortivus eucyclus, Fernald, Antennaria petaloidea, 
Fernald, Taraxacum erythrospermum, Andrz., Anemone riparia, Fer- 
nald, and Polygonatum giganteum, Dietrich. — W. W. Eggleston, Rut- 
land, Vt. 
[Prof. S. F. Clarke, of Williams College, writes that Anemonedla has been known 
for some years at “ Weeping Rocks" in Pownal. Ranunculus hispidus was re- 
cently found by Mr. Ralph Hoffmann at Stockbridge, Mass., its first station in the 
state. — Ep. ] 
SOME ORCHIDS OF EASTERN VERMONT. 
ALICE E. BACON. 
A SECTION of the Connecticut valley, within a radius of four miles 
from Bradford, furnishes some fine specimens of Orchidaceze, as well 
as other plants of great interest to the botanist. Less than a mile 
from the village is a swamp entirely covered at this season (June 25) 
with Cypripedium spectabile, and a little earlier fine specimens of 
C. pubescens and C. parviflorum were gathered there. This particular 
swamp is also a favorite visiting place for many kinds of birds. In 
the heart of the village, on a hill forming one of the banks of Wait’s 
River, a small tributary to the Connecticut, is found an abundance of 
C. acaule, during the last of May. 
