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‘Poa nemoralis, L. Woods, rare. Recorded from Northern 
Maine. : 
* Poa debilis, Torr. Probably this species, though Dr. Vasey 
says the plant appears somewhat like alsodes, Gray. Deep 
mossy woods. 
Puccinellia maritima, Parl., var. minor, Watson. I collected 
this rare form at Cape Elizabeth, Me., in 1889. Only two 
plants were found. 
Festuca gigantea, Vill. Not rare by roadsides. 
Aspidium spinulosum, Swartz. The typical form is common here 
in deep woods and swamps. 
Ophioglossum vulgatum, L. Quite abundant. 
* Lycopodium. Prof. D. C. Eaton names it, “ ZL. annotinum, L., 
var. pungens, Spring, a form with the fertile branches less 
leafy, and thus imitating L. clavatum, L.” Knolls in pasture. 
Very scarce. 
Thus it is seen that Maine has an unusually interesting flora, 
the discoveries in which may be made aimost indefinite in extent, 
and when there have been further explorations, doubtless many 
things will be found to occur here which have hitherto been over- 
looked by the busy people of the “ Pine Tree State.” | 
I wish here at least to express my thanks for the assistance so 
kindly rendered me and the encouragement given by four of our 
most prominent workers, Drs. Sereno Watson and Geo. Vasey, 
and Professors L. H. Bailey and D. C. Eaton. 
Orono, Me. 
Reviews of Foreign Literature, 
La Génération sexuée des Gleichéniacées. N.W. P. Rauwenhoff, - 
(Archives Néerlandaises xxiv. 157-231.) 
The Gleicheniacez form a group of ferns having no representa- 
tives within the United States. They are usually placed between 
the Osmundacee and the other leptosporangiate ferns, and con- 
stitute a family of equal rank with the Polypodiacez, Schizzacez 
etc. They have been but little studied, and the paper before us 
is the first account of the prothallium that is at all complete, al- 
though the author in 1877 and 1879 published some notes upon 
them. | 
