1911] Blanchard,— Lycopodium complanatum 211 
altero die, marcescentibus, pallidis, basi carneis, 20-25 mm. longis, 
17-23 mm. latis, obcordatis. Stamina petalis paulum breviora valde 
declinata. Pistillum antheras attingens, stigmatibus 4-6 mm. longis 
patentibus. Ovarium 8 mm. longum pilis acutis curvatis plerisque 
non rubrotuberculatis tectum. Fructus maturus 20-28 mm. longus 
infra mediam 5 mm. crassus, ad apicem versus angustatus, pilis aliis 
sparsis els ovarii immaturi similibus, aliis densis minutissimis crispis 
acutis; apicibus valvulorum liberis brevibus truncatis.— Dixie Land- 
ing, near Tensaw, Alabama, seed collected by S. M. Tracy. 
BUREAU OF PLANT IxpvsrRy, Washington, D. C. 
EXPLANATION OF PLATE 93. 
Fig. 1. Oenothera Tracyi. Mature rosette, a transitory stage, the main stem 
beginning its upward growth almost immediately. (Culture of B. M. 
Davis 11.15). 
Fig. 2. Oenothera Tracyi. Mature plant, showing branches 1.5-2.0 m. long 
from the base of the stem. (Culture of B. M. Davis 10.22.) 
Fig. 3. Oenothera Tracyi. Inflorescence, showing the numerous crowded 
lateral spikes. At the right is a leaf from the lower portion of the main 
stem. (Culture of B. M. Davis 10.22.) 
LYCOPODIUM COMPLANATUM NEAR HARTLAND, 
VERMONT. 
W. H. BLANCHARD. 
Mr. Hanorp G. Ruce of Hanover, New Hampshire, has sent me 
some specimens of Lycopodium complanatum L. which seem to match 
exactly those which I collected in Caribou, Maine, Oct. 3, 1909, and 
described in the July number of RHopona. Mr. Rugg gives an 
interesting account of the discovery of the station which is in the 
nearby town of Hartland, Vermont. His letter was written August 
16, 1911. 
“The Lycopodium complanatum was growing in mossy ground near 
the edge of some woods, somewhat shady, in the Lull Brook valley, 
near Hartland village. In May, 1910, five or six of the members of 
the Hartland Nature Club were on a bird and plant walk. One of the 
members asked what Lycopodium we were passing, and I at once 
recognized it as L. complanatum and took a specimen (the fruit had 
