196 Rhodora [OCTOBER 
and is a distinct credit to the already well known reputation of the 
editors. 
It is learned from the publishers that the exact date of issue was 18 
September, 1908. 
WELLESLEY, MASSACHUSETTS. 
NEW STATIONS FOR FERNS IN VERMONT.— The writer had the good 
fortune to find within a mile from this city in June a swamp contain- 
ing several hundred plants of Woodwardia Virginica (L.) Sm., thus 
establishing a third station in Vermont for this interesting fern, the 
others being Fort Ethan Allen pond, near Burlington, and a bog in 
Franklin. The circumstances under which the Woodwardia was growing 
here are rather interesting. ‘The bog is of the typical sphagnum type, 
situated between two ledges, at perhaps 700 feet elevation. "The hill 
on which it is found shelters a large pond bordered by a sphagnum 
bog, evidently a typical place for Woodwardia, yet not a plant of the 
fern is to be found there although it is only a few hundred feet from 
the new station. Another interesting fern to be found in the Wood- 
wardia bog and one which I have never before seen in Vermont is 
Osmunda cinnamomea var. incisa. About half of a large number of 
plants of this Osmunda growing in the bog show well incised pinnae. 
'The effect of these cut pinnae on the general appearance of the 
frond is very pretty. None of the incised form of О. cinnamomea 
grows in the other bogs on the hill. A number of botanists to whom 
I have showed the incised form of cinnamon fern expressed the belief 
that it would not reproduce true to parent but the finding of so many 
plants of the fern in the bog looks as though it were something more 
than a freak.— GEORGE L. Kirk, RUTLAND, VERMONT. 
To collectors and those who possess herbaria within the region 
covered by Gray's Manual it will be of interest to learn that a Check 
List of the new (7th) edition has been prepared by Miss Mary A. Day, 
Librarian of the Gray Herbarium, Cambridge, Massachusetts. It is 
of pocket size and will be found convenient alike for field notes and 
exchange records. 
Vol. 10, no. 117, including pages 149 to 172 was issued 30 September, 1908. 
