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cially on the northern slopes, and it descends on the mountain at 

 least as low as 1500 ft. Bald Mt. has a probable elevation of 2000 

 feet. 



Owing to the cold wet spring the flowers seem to have blighted 

 and I gathered no satisfactory fruit of either species or variety. 

 There seems to be a general paucity of fruit this year among the 

 mountain plants in Franklin County. — C. H. Knowlton, Chelms- 

 ford, Massachusetts. 



Hieracium praealtum at Andover, Massachusetts. — In the 

 early summer of 1901, in a dry pasture in Andover, Massachusetts, 

 I noticed a Hieracium which seemed unfamiliar to me. This year, 

 from the same locality, I obtained specimens which, when compared 

 with others in the herbarium of Mr. Walter Deane, proved to be H. 

 praealtum, Vill. The station has increased greatly in size since 

 1901, but prompt action may perhaps avail to stamp out this pest, 

 I shall be interested to know whether this plant has been previously 

 found in Massachusetts. — Arthur Stanley Pease, Andover, Mass. 



Crepis virens in Eastern Massachusetts. — Crepis virens, L. 

 (determined by Dr. J. M. Greenman of the Gray Herbarium) grows 

 sparingly in the grass border of the boulevard near " Soldiers' Field," 

 Brighton. Dr. Greenman tells me that this species has lately been 

 reported from Franklin, Massachusetts, by Miss Rhoda L. Mann. 

 — Joseph R. Webster, North Cambridge, Massachusetts. 



A new Station for Polypodium vulgare, var. cambricum. — 

 While climbing the wooded slope of the unburned peak of Western 

 Mountain, Mount Desert Island, Maine, on August 12th last, I was 

 greatly surprised to come upon a peculiar polypody with deeply scal- 

 loped pinnae. The plant was locally so abundant that after picking 

 some fronds I threw them aside for others with more deeply lobed 

 pinnae. Unfortunately I had carried no collecting box, so that many 

 of the fronds were lost before I returned to Seal Harbor. Two of 

 those which were saved were sent to the Gray Herbarium where an 

 examination has shown them to be the rare Polypodium vulgare, var. 



