1906] Two Species of Sporobolus 23 



of Hartland, Vermont, a station for Nephrodium. Filix-mas. It is a 

 new fern not only for Vermont, but for New England ; the nearest 

 reported stations being at the eastern end of the Gaspe Peninsula, and 

 the next nearest, in northern Michigan. In the Old World the plant 

 is not uncommon, and for several centuries has been esteemed for cer- 

 tain medicinal properties. The specific name is that by which alone 

 it was known before the binomial system of naming was adopted by 

 Linnaeus,— "Filix mas," the male-fern, being thus distinguished from 

 "Filix foemina," the lady-fern. 



Miss Darling, at whose request this note is presented, reports that 

 the Hartland station is some fourteen hundred feet above sea level, 

 and nearly half a mile from any dwelling; so that the environment 

 gives satisfactory evidence that the species is indigenous. The colony 

 consisted of half a dozen plants in three small clumps; they were 

 growing on rocky land, among paper birches. — Ezra Brainerd, 

 Middlebury, Vermont. 



Notes on two Species of Sporobolus. — I collected Sporobolus 

 asper, Kunth, September 12, 1903, near New Haven, Connecticut. 

 It was found on a steep, rocky slope, where it grew in scattered tufts 

 over an area of several square rods, and amid a profusion of taller 

 grasses, which nearly concealed even the largest tufts. On September 

 12, 1905, it was in full bloom, and in better condition for collection 

 than on the corresponding date two years before, and it seemed to be 

 more abundant. The Illustrated Flora gives Delaware as the north- 

 ern limit of the species, and this station appears to be the first one 

 reported from New England. Specimens from this station have 

 been verified by Mr. A. S. Hitchcock at the Herbarium of the Bureau 

 of Plant Industry in Washington. I collected S. neglectus, Nash, 

 September 12, 1903, near the above locality for S. asper, upon a long 

 narrow bench of rock, where the soil was thin and dry. It was abun- 

 dant here. These specimens have also been verified by Mr. Hitch- 

 cock. — R. W. Woodward, New Haven, Connecticut. 



The Vermont Botanical Club held its 11th annual Winter 

 Meeting at the University of Vermont, Burlington, January 17 and 18. 

 Among the items of interest to students of plant distribution were the 

 reports of the discovery of Aspidium Filix-mas at Harland by Miss 



