1899] Fuller, — Rare plants of Needham, Mass. 181 
Solidago tenuifolia, Pursh, grows in two places, both of narrow limits, 
a mile apart; one at the margin of a wet meadow; the other in a dry 
upland field. 
Andromeda polifolia, L. Sparingly among low bushes in one 
meadow. 
Liparis Loeselit, Richard. Collected at two stations in Needham, 
but has not been seen for several years. 
Habenaria ciliaris, R. Br. The Dedham station for this rare 
species is inseparably associated with the late Mr. E. H. Hitchings. I 
well remember the animated story of his two hundred mile search, 
season after season, guided by the slenderest clew, before this ardent 
lover of our wild plants found the Yellow Orchis. His eighty years 
were but as twenty, and the most indifferent follower of Nature could 
not but share his pleasure. It grows there in dry soil, among Pitch 
Pines and Osmunda and Pteris. Some years only two or three plants 
flower, and seldom twenty. It is in perfection of bloom the last week 
in July and the first in August. 
Smilacina trifolia, L. Abundant in a small, permanently wet bog, 
north of Great Plain Avenue, Needham, covering a space of twenty 
feet diameter, growing in sphagnum, shaded by Alders and Poison 
Sumach. It does not flower very freely, and I have never been able 
to find fruit. In flower May ro to June 5. 
Trisetum palustre, Torr. I have found this grass in two meadows 
in Needham, growing rather plentifully over considerable areas. 
T. subspicatum, Beauv. var. molle, Gray. This unexpected variety 
I found in High Rock woods several seasons; a few plants scattered 
along for a hundred feet on a high, shaded ledge. 
Eatonia Pennsylvanica, Gray. In one meadow, 
E. Dudleyi, Vasey. In more than one piece of dry upland woods. 
Camptosorus rhizophyllus, Link. In Eaton's Ferns of North America 
this is said to have “lately been found a few miles from Boston; but 
there is a doubt whether the station is truly natural.” It was found in 
Needham in 1877, by Mr. Storrow Higginson, by whom the plants were 
shown to Mr. William Edwards of Natick. Mr. Edwards announced 
the discovery in the Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club, January, 
1878, adding, * As it has never before been reported this side of Mt. 
Tom in the western part of the state, its presence here will be received 
with rejoicing by the many lovers of ferns in this quarter.” In the 
same journal for the following month Mr. Davenport discussed its 
