188 Rhodora [OCTOBER 
SELAGINELLA APODA IN MAINE.—In 1861 George Lincoln Goodale 
collected in Wells, York Co., the plant which was described in 
Gray’s Manual as Selaginella apus (L.) Spring, but which Professor 
Fernald has shown should be called S. apoda (L.) Fernald.* In the 
great Portland fire Dr. Goodale's specimens were lost, and the plant 
has been unknown in Maine from that time to July 4, 1922. On the 
latter date I revisited one of my old hunting-grounds at North 
Berwick, and, in moist gravelly soil beside a spring-fed rill, only 
a few feet from the Negutaquet River, I noticed among the grass a 
close carpet of a small delicate plant, whose peculiar shade of green 
first caught my attention. On picking some of it and observing 
that it had three rows of leaves, two at right angles to the stalk and 
the other smaller and appressed, in my ignorance of the hepatics I 
concluded that it was one of that group. It was so attractive that 
I collected a number of plants and laid them in a book where they 
remained unmolested till the spring of 1923. I then undertook to 
study the hepatics and thought that I would look over my “No. 
7197." As soon as I used the compound on it, I knew that I had 
no hepatic. Taking Gray’s Manual, I easily traced it to Selaginellaceae 
but there I was stopped: my plant grew erect, not prostrate; the 
microsporangia were below the macrosporangia. As usual I appealed 
to Professor M. L. Fernald to cut the Gordian knot, and his identi- 
fication replaces Selaginella apoda in the flora of Maine.—Jonw C. 
ParLin, Freedom, Maine. 
! Ruopona, xvii. 68 (1915), 
Vol. 25, no. 297, including pages 149 lo 168, was issued 29 September, 1923. 
