i6o Rhodora [July 



search in her herbarium does not reveal the plants, but that a few 

 years ago, alarmed at the dampness in the room where they were 

 stored, she examined them and destroyed quite a number, among 

 which might possibly have been the much desired species. She has 

 sent me one of Br. Blanchard's Utricularias marked " U. purpurea l''^ 

 but no other data accompanies the sheet, so that it is only presum- 

 ably from Vermont, while the specimen is x\o\. purpurea but intermedia. 

 Of course I do not think that there is the very slightest doubt that 

 the species occurs in Vermont, for it is found in all the other New 

 England States, specimens from which I have seen, but under the 

 circumstances I do not feel justified in crediting it to the State. It 

 will doubtless turn up during the coming summer in one or more of 

 the many ponds or streams that are scattered over Vermont. 



Utricularia suhulata reaches its northern limit, as far as I can dis- 

 cover, in southern New England, where I know it to occur only at 

 Worden's Pond, South Kingston, R. I. (Plants of Rhode Island, 

 J. L. Bennett, 1888, 28) ; Nantucket, Mass., where I have collected 

 it at Tom Never's Pond and (iibb's Pond; and "within five miles of 

 Yale College," New Haven, Conn. (Annals of Yale College in New 

 Haven, Conn., E. lialdwin, 1831, 300). This is in the list of plants 

 referred to above under Hydrophyllum canadcnse. 



U. chistagama has been reported only from Nantucket and Cape 

 Cod, Mass., and appears to reach its northern limit here. They are 

 both coastal species. 



I have been unable to find even a published record of the occur- 

 rence of Utricularia clandestina from New Hampshire or of U. minor 

 from Vermont, but there is no reason why these species should not 

 grow in these States, as they are so generally distributed over the 

 rest of New England. 



In the Herbarium of the New England Botanical Club is a speci- 

 men of Martynia louisiana labelled ** Boston, 1877. C. E. Perkins." 

 This very transient stranger was probably collected on South Boston 

 fiats. Prof. George L. Goodale in his Catalogue of the flowering 

 plants of Maine, published in the Proceedings of the Portland Society 

 of Natural History, I, 1862, 56, says of this species: "occurs in 

 Portland around wharves of Cuban traders." 



Prof. L. R, Jones of the University of Vermont, Burlington, Vt., 

 has been kind enough to send me from the herbarium for 

 examination the classic sheet of Dianthera americana collected in 



