l* Rliodora [January 



Stem 4-9 dm. high, erect, rather slender, somewhat j)ilose-hispid 

 throughout, glaiuhilar-puberulent above, 4-11 -flowered: basal leaves 

 interruptedly pinnate, 1.5-3.5 dm. long, hispid below; the 3 approx- 

 imate obovate terminal lobes shallowly lobed and coarsely dentate, 

 the uppermost largest (5-9 cm. long, '4-S cm. broad), with 4 to G 

 unequal pairs of sul)()pj)osite or scattered ovate lobes (0.5 4 cm. long) 

 below; cauline 3-lobed or -parted, the lower short-petioled, the upper 

 sessile, the leaflets obovate (or the ujipermost lanceolate) sharply 

 toothed, mostly 3 5.5 cm. long: stipules narrowly ovate sharply and 

 coarsely toothed, 1-2 cm. long: peduncles purplish, slender, at first 

 nodding, later becoming erect: calyx purplish, in anthesis 1-1.3 cm. 

 broad, becoming larger in fruit, cleft half-way to base into deltoid- 

 ovate acuminate strigose wide-spreading lobes, with linear-subulate 

 alternating teeth (I mm. long) : petals 7 or S mm. long, bright yellow, 

 suborbiciilar, obcordate, narrowed to short claws: filaments yellowish 

 or purj)lish: carpels bristly below with ascending yellow-white hairs; 

 the elongate deep-jiurple styles jointed above the "middle, the up])er 

 plumose portion carmine: fruit not seen. — Quehec, boggy meadow 

 by the St. r.awrencc, Bic, July G, 1905 (IViUiarm, Collins, & Fernald): 

 Vermont, Mendon, July 16, 1898 (W. \V. Egghsion). 



Gray Herbarium. 



A HYBRID ASPLENHTM NEW TO THE FLORA OF 

 VERM0N1\ 



George E. Davenport. 



The finding of a hybrid Asplenium at Proctor, Vermont, by INIr. 

 G. A. Woolson of Pittsford Mills, is of more than ordinary interest, 

 both on account of the accurately noted environment and because 

 the fern although previously known as a European plant has never 

 before been recorded in America. It is the Asplenium TrickomanesX 

 Ruta-muraria of Ascherson & Graebner^ of which several somewhat 

 varying forms have been contrasted in parallel columns by Christ. ^ 

 Mr. Woolson's account of his discovery gives the following details. 



Passing over a ridge at Proctor, Vermont, he paused in an open 

 space to see what was growing on and between the outcropping 



' Synopsis der Mitteleuropaischen Flora, i. 79 (1896). 

 ' Die Farrikrauter der Schweiz, 97, f. 15 (1900). 



