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BULBLETS OF MiCROSTYLIS OPHIOGLOSSOIDES— Upon July 30th, 



1903, it was my good fortune to find an unusually fine specimen of 

 Microstylis ophioglossoides, the stem measuring eleven inches from 

 top of bulb to tip of raceme. While I was preparing it for the press 

 my attention was attracted to several bulblets which had formed under- 

 neath the loose outer coat of the bulb very much as the bulblets form 

 upon Vallota bulbs. They were pearly white and closely resembled 

 small kernels of rice. There was no regularity in their position upon 

 the mature bulb. One of the bulblets had already sent up a tiny leaf 

 upon a stem half an inch in length and plainly exhibited the same 

 double structure and the same general form as mature bulbs. Micro- 

 siyhs ophioglossoides is not uncommon in this locality but it seems to 

 be a shy seeder, as I seldom find more than one or two capsules 

 formed from a raceme of blossoms. Therefore it would seem as if 

 Nature provided for its propagation in another method than by seed- 

 — Harriet A. Nye, Fairfield Center, Maine. 



Cleome serrulata in Maine.— On August 3rd, 1903, a party of 

 ladies were waiting for the train at Moosehead Inn Station on the 

 hne of the Canadian Pacific Railroad. Being interested in botany 

 they improved the opportunity by seeking for novel flowers, and just 

 as the train was coming into the station one of their number, Miss 

 Harriet Burr, found a small plant about five inches in height grow- 

 mg in the very middle of the railroad track. This was submitted to 

 the writer and by him determined as aeo7ne serruhita, Pursh. The 

 specimen was sent to Mr. M. L. Fernald of the Gray Herbarium 

 who verified the identification and reported that it was new to th 

 State.— O. VV. Knight, i^angor, Maine. 



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Helenium nudiflorum in Groton, Connecticut.— On July 

 29th, 1903, while walking through the mowing lot at Esker Point, 

 near Noauk, I came across a plant in bud which looked like a Rud- 

 beckia, but left it to develop. On my next trip a few days afterwards 

 I found it unfolded, and it proved to be Helenium nudiflorum Nutt. 

 This time I found four or five other plants of the same species a few 

 yards away. As the grass was mowed soon after, I saw no more 



