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as I have learned A,iplcnium ehenoides has never been reeonled before. 

 Very near it was a vigorous phxnt of Campiosorus rhizophi/llus on 

 wliich nearly every frond was a departure from the typical leaf with 

 rounded lobes. One had pinnae as distinct below as in Asplenium 

 ehenoides itself, thus looking much as though this individual was a 

 sort of missing link in the history of the interesting spleenwort. — 

 Mrs. J. R. Sanford, Winsted, Connecticut. 



The apetalous form of Arenaria groenlandica on Mt. Mans- 

 field. — During the second week of June, 1902, I collected on Mt. 

 INIansfield apetalous specimens of Arenaria groenlandica Spreng. 

 The season was cold and wet and normal plants of the same species 

 were developing slowly. On looking over the back numbers of my 

 set of Rhodora 1 found a record relative to apetalous specimens of 

 A. groenlandica collected by Mr. Rand in 1888 and others with re- 

 duced petals collected by Professor Fernald in 1894, and I intended 

 to report immediately the new station which I had observed, but press 

 of work prevented my doing so. In 1904 I searched again for the 

 form in question but failed to find it. In 1905, however, on July 7th 

 I was more fortunate, finding a colony some inches in diameter grow- 

 ing among the tyi)ical plants which were in full bloom. On both 

 occasions the apetalous specimens were collected on the open ridge 

 of the summit of the mountain. Only a few sjiecimens were taken 

 at either time and all were sent to the herbarium of the University 

 of Vermont. The previous note on the a]:)etalous form of this species 

 recorfls its occurrence in Maine only, and suggests that it may be a 

 seasonal development. The finding of the form on Mt. Mansfield in 

 early June not only extends the known range to Vermont but seems 

 to indicate that it is not the result of any reduction or abortion of the 

 normal form after normal flowering. — Elizabeth B. Davenport, 

 Brattleboro, Vermont. • 



A New Variety of Carex interior. — During a recent excursion 

 in the St. John Valley of the Josselyn Botanical Society of Maine I 

 was much interested and perplexed by a strange Carex which abounded 

 on a wet sandy shore below Fort Kent. The plant was obviously 

 related to Carex interior but its slender lance-subulate mostly ascend- 



