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noticed the peculiarities of the unidentified tree. Without hesitation 
they asserted that the cones and foliage of this tree were the same. It 
is not unreasonable, therefore, to expect that larger trees of Pinus 
Banksiana may be found at a lower altitude on Mount Desert, as they 
are on the Schoodic Peninsula. — E. L. Ranp, Boston, Mass. 
KALMIA LATIFOLIA IN VERMONT. — Through the kindness of Prof. 
L. R. Jones, of the University of Vermont, I have been enabled to see 
specimens of the Mountain Laurel from two localities in his State: 
Pownal, where Mr. W. W. Eggleston collected the plant on West Moun- 
tain, July 24, 1898; and Newfane, where the species was taken on the 
banks of West River, June, 1894. Prof. Jones tells me that he has 
seen the plant near Brattleboro. Dr. A. J. Grout also reports it as 
abundant at Newfane and Dummerston. 
The space devoted to this plant in my list in RHopora, Vol. I, No. 
5, can now be filled with a cross. — WALTER DEANE. 
A PECULIAR STATE OF POLYPORUS PERGAMENUS. — An unusual form of 
the very variable Polyporus (Polystictus) pergamenus Fr. was found in 
Middlesex Fells in November, by Mrs. H. C. DeLong. It shows ina 
remarkable way the tendency of the species, long ago noted by Peck, to 
revive the second year by putting on a new growth at the edge of the 
pileus. In this case, to judge from the specimens, the branch or trunk 
on which the plants had grown the first year having been turned up- 
side down, the new growth took place with the pilei of the first year 
inverted. Under these conditions the plant had a rare chance to display 
that ready adaptability to circumstances common to this and other spe- 
cies. Along the outer edges, now turned up, of the old pilei, new pilei 
developed in a normal position, a number of new ones on each of the 
old. As these grew nearly to normal size their bases developed a con- 
fluent portion, effused over the under (originally upper) surface of the 
old pilei. Though the revivification took place mainly along the 
edges, numerous tiny pilei were formed on projecting portions of the 
old hymenium. In these, which began to grow vertically upward, the 
dorsal (normally upper) surface faced uniformly the distal (outer) 
edges of the old pilei, their lateral expansion thus corresponding with 
the transverse serial lines of pores that are characteristic of the species. 
On the other hand, the unvarying tendency of the much larger sec- 
