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further north, but has been overlooked. It, therefore, seemed well 
to call the attention of New England botanists to the plant, that they 
may watch for it in future collecting, and give us more exact knowl- 
edge of its distribution.— Lincotn Ware RIDDLE, Wellesley College, 
Wellesley, Massachusetts. 
REDISCOVERY or PoDOSTEMON CERATOPHYLLUS IN VERMONT.— 
While erossing the West River about one fourth mile below the rail- 
road station in Jamaica, Vermont, one day the past summer, my 
attention was attracted by a curious sea-weed like plant which adhered 
closely to the stones of the river bed, and which seemed to be abundant 
over a considerable area. It being the dry season (August) some 
stones bearing the plant were out of water. Upon being submitted 
to the Harvard Botanical Department the plant proved to be the 
river weed Podostemon ceratophyllus Michx. This plant has before 
been reported from Vermont by Frost but has been placed upon the 
doubtful list in the Flora of Vermont. The station is only accessible 
at low water but no doubt the plant may be found at other places in 
the bed of West River.— Frank Dossin, Shushan, New York. 
A NEW VARIETY OF Scirpus OLNEYL.— The genus Scirpus is 
somewhat remarkable for the number of its varieties with elongated 
spikelets, so it was not surprising when, in Milford, Conn., Sept. 28, 
1907, during an excursion of the Connecticut Botanical Society, the 
writer found an additional variety of this class, which may be de- 
scribed as follows: 
Scirpus OLNEYI Gray, var. contortus, n. var. Some or all of the 
spikelets twisted or bent, linear, elongated (1-2, rarely 2.4 em. in 
length); involucral leaf prolonged (3-7 cm.) and, like the stem, not 
so stout as in the species. Brackish marsh on the coast, Milford, 
Conn., E. H. Eames, no. 5847. Type, in herb. Eames: co-type in 
herb. Gray. 
Conspicuously different from the species in the foregoing characters; 
and from allied species, among other features, in the remarkable tri- 
quetrous-winged stem.— E. H. Eames, Bridgeport, Connecticut. 
Vol. 9, no. 106, incl uding pages 197-208 and plate 76, was issued 26 October, 
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