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them grow emersed in mud on the shore a little below high water mark. 
These latter plants, however, are very small, with short, contracted 
scapes, bearing usually only a few flowers. 
My observations during the last few years lead me to conclude that 
Subularia reaches its best development in more than one foot of water 
at the summer level of the pond, unless in some way anchored in 
mats of other aquatic plants, to secure protection from uprooting in 
rough water. — E. L. RAND. 
THE STAMINATE PLANT OF ANTENNARIA PaARLINII — It may be of in- 
terest to some of the many readers of RHODORA to know that the 
staminate form of Antennaria Parlinii, Fernald, has been found. On 
May 28, along the banks of the Newichawannick river, North Berwick, 
Maine, in a large bed of A. Parlinii, A. Parlinit, var. arnoglossa and 
A. plantaginea, var. petiolata, 1 found just four staminate plants, whose 
large basal leaves and shoots, brittle, succulent stems, and glandular 
pubescence, proclaimed them to be the long sought male form of 
A. Parlinii. ‘The few heads, on short pedicels, were in a small corymb 
1.5 cm. broad. The bracts, in a single series or obscurely 2-seriate, 
were oblong, green and herbaceous, with white, or pink and white, erose 
tips. 
The extreme scarcity of the staminate plant seems to leave the ques- 
tion of the general fertilization of the species still unsolved. — JOHN 
C. ParLiN, North Berwick, Maine. 
MORCHELLA BISPORA. — In his synopsis of the Vermont Helvelleae 
in the April RHopora, Dr. E. A. Burt calls attention to the possibility 
of extending the range of Morchella hybrida Pers. ( = M. semilibera 
DC.), known in New England only from Massachusetts. A further 
suggestion of the same kind may well be made in regard to the much 
rarer Morchella bispora Sor. Both these fungi belong in the division 
of the genus characterized by having a free limb to the cap (genus 
Mitrophora Lév.), and are thus easily recognized in the field. With- 
out microscopic examination, however, M. bispora might readily be 
overlooked, and the collection, in consequence, credited to the former 
species ; for, although M. bispora, as can be well seen in a vertical 
section, has a cap free very nearly to the top of the stem, in contrast 
