48 •- Rhodora '■ [February 



Society, I collected at Lakeville, Connecticut, an unusual plant of 

 Botrychium Vircjinianum, Sw. It is tall (two feet three inches) and 

 stout in f)ro|)ortion. Just above the sterile segment of the frond the 

 stem forks twice and each of the three resultant branches bears a large, 

 perfectly developed, and heavily fruited fertile segment, — in every 

 case about four and a half inches in height and with the lowest pinnae 

 two to two and a halt' inches long. In other respects the ])lant is nor- 

 mal, though rather large for the species, and it grew in a patch of woods 

 under seemingly normal conditions. Only in its three heads is the 

 strength of its individuality a[iparent. 



j\Ir. C. H. Bissell informs me that in I). V. Eaton's herbarium at 

 Yale there are two specimens of Bofri/chuini Vinjimanum which have 

 thre<' fertile segments, and several others which have two. The form, 

 then, is by no means unprecedented, but its occasional recurrence 

 may be worthy of note. — C. A. Weatjiehby, East Hartford, Con- 

 necticut. 



Early Floweuixg of Hepatica triloba. — Writing to Professor 

 G. L. Goodale, ]\Ir. Denison R. Slade of Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts, 

 sends the following note. "I wish to let you know that I found the 

 Hepatica in full bloom in the woods of Newton [Massachusetts] on 

 January 2<), 100(). :\Iy father for a term of years, 1S63 to 1895, kept 

 a record of the dates when the above flower appeared in the same 

 place. March 2, 1880, is the earliest at which it was found. He 

 writes 'I once found them in blossom in Mount Auburn in March, 

 1840, but they rarely show themselves about Boston before the month 

 of April.'" 



Vol. 8, no. 85, including 'pages 1 to 24, and plate 64, was issued 7 February, 



1906. 



