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remarks was written to me, and I have the very specimens that were 

 examined, for they were returned to me with the letter. They were 

 collected at Somes Pond by Mr. E. L. Rand, who sent them to me. 

 I have other specimens of the same collecting besides abundant 

 typical material from elsewhere. Comparison of all these specimens 

 shows that the points of difference between the Somes Pond form 

 and typical plants lie in the size of the flowers and in the longer 

 narrow spur. Dr. Morong says that the spur is "not curved," but a 

 slight curve does occur in specimens that were not submitted to him. 

 In the Gray Herbarium are specimens collected in South Kingston, 

 R. I., by Olney and Thurber in 1846, resembling in size of flowers 

 and shape of spur the forms submitted to Dr. Morong. These 

 points alone do not seem to warrant regarding the plants as more 

 than a form of gibba, and it is much better to follow Dr. Morong's 

 critical judgment as expressed above. 



In the Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club, HI, 1872, 56, Mr. 

 Elihu S. Miller reports finding Utricularia fibrosa, Walt. ( U. striata, 

 Le Conte) at Wading River, in the northern part of Long Island. 

 As the width of Long Island Sound only separates this station from 

 Connecticut, the species should be looked for in the southern part 

 of that State. 



The latest published record crediting Utriailaria purpurea to 

 Vermont, and embodying the results of all previous study of the 

 flora of that State, is found in the Flora of Vermont by Brainerd, 

 Jones and Eggleston, published in 1900, where stations for that spe- 

 cies are given on the authority of the late Dr. F. Blanchard of 

 Peacham, Vt. In my search for herbarium specimens of this spe- 

 cies from that State I have been kindly aided by the three authors 

 of the above-mentioned Flora, but every effort has failed to disclose 

 the plant. Dr. Blanchard was a copious collector in Vermont and 

 many herbaria contain specimens of his work. These herbaria I 

 have traced and examined with the greatest care, but without result. 

 Utricularia pitrpurea from Vermont has failed to appear. Mr. Eggle- 

 ston wrote me in December, 1903, that Mrs. Alice F. Stevens of 

 Washington, D. C, had written him in 1895 that in her herbarium, 

 among Dr. Blanchard's plants, of which she had purchased a large 

 number, was U. purpurea from East Barnet and West Danville, Vt. 

 Mr. Eggleston, however, did not see the specimens. Mrs. Stevens 

 writes me that she cannot recall the circumstance and that a careful 



