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yellowish hue. From my examination of the specimens the plant is 
in all other respects typical. I will designate it Vaccinium cana- 
dense, forma chiococcum. 
Prof. Wm. G. Farlow records white-fruited Vaccinium canadense from 
Shelburne, New Hampshire (Garden and Forest, II, 1889, pp. 5o, 51). 
This form should be entered in my list with a cross for Maine and a 
line for New Hampshire. 
I will mention two records outside of New England. Vaccinium 
vacillans with white berries is recorded from the sand region east of 
Chicago, Illinois, by Mr. E. J. Hill (Garden and Forest, VIII, 1895, 
p. 503). He says that the plants are known to the berry pickers, 
thus indicating that the form is a persistent one, and he thinks that 
the seeds are fertile. 
Prof. Thos. C. Porter in 1889 (Bull. Torr. Club, XVI, p. 21) 
records white-berried Gaylussacia resinosa from Pennsylvania and 
New Jersey. 
The writer will be very glad to hear of any other stations in New 
England or elsewhere for white-berried forms of Vaccinium or Gay- 
lussacia. 
CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS. 
MISCELLANEOUS NOTES ON NEW ENGLAND FERNS,— II. 
GEORGE E. DAVENPORT. 
3. In the course of these notes some important changes will be 
adopted, but in all cases such explanations will be given as will 
render the reasons therefore clearly understood. 
For instance: — The Lady fern, until quite recently, has been 
known to American fern students as Asplenium filix-foemina although 
Prof. Eaton, and Dr. Underwood have recognized Roth’s Athyrium 
as a section of Asplenium in accordance with the treatment of Hooker 
and Baker. 
Many excellent authorities, however, have regarded Athyrium as 
wholly distinct from Asflenium and kept the two apart. The 
former appears to be well represented by a group of ferns quite dis- 
tinct in habit, structure and the character of their sori from Asplenium 
