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3. S. heterochaetiis is also common in Lake Champlain, but is 

 found in more sheltered places than S. occidental is. Its stems are 

 much more slender, but equally litiie and strong. A marsh of sev- 

 eral acres in Ball's Bay, Ferrisburgh, is almost entirely given up to 

 this species. When I saw it in August the golden fruit was waving 

 in the wind, and it looked like a field of ripened grain. Indeed, I 

 was told by an intelligent camper in this region, that small birds feed 

 extensively on the seeds of these plants in the autumn. S. hetero- 

 chaetiis flowers at a date midway between the two other species, and 

 is readily recognized by the color of the spikelets, their ovoid-conical 

 shape, and the three-cleft style. 



The pleasure of finding that these two new species were so com- 

 mon in Lake Champlain, was not unmixed with a painful sense of 

 chagrin that for so many years one had been going in and out among 

 these bulrushes without observing their marked specific distinctness. 



MiDDLEBURV, VkRMONT. 



NEW STATIONS FOR MAINE PLANTS, — 11. 

 Edward B. Chamberi ain. 



Alniis serrulata, Willd. — In 1898 a large clump of this plant 

 was found in a swamp along the bank of the Pemaquid river in the 

 town of Bristol, Maine. This is the first undoubted station thus far 

 reported from the state, the shrub previously reported as A. serrulata 

 being a phase of A. incana with rufescent veins. As the locality is 

 two miles or more from any house, and is one that is but rarely visited 

 save for wood cutting in the winter, there seems to be no possibility 

 of the plant having been introduced from farther south. 



Antennaria occidental is, Qx^^i\Q.. {A. Farwellii, Fernald, not Greene.) 

 — A large patch of this plant was found on a railroad embankment 

 near Cumberland Center, Maine, in 1902, and specimens then collected 

 have been determined by Mr. Fernald. The only other Maine station, 

 at North Berwick, is about forty miles southwest, and has been re- 

 ported in Rhodora, i : 152. 



Desmodium Dillenii, Darlingt. — Specimens are in my herbarium 

 from Chesterville, Franklin Co., and also from Falmouth, Cumberland 

 Co. The Chesterville station represents the extreme northward exten- 

 sion of the species in western Maine. 



