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summer, near Pickman's Farm, on the Eastern Rail Road. For 

 a beautiful figure, see English Botany, table 181. 



UTRICULARIA INFLATA Walter. 

 Vesicular Bladder-wort : Bigelow's Plants, p. 8. 



Natural order. Lentibularioe. Richard. 

 Specimens of this elegant plant were found last summer, in 

 Bartlemy's Pond, Danvers. The petioles are singularly vesicu- 

 lar and buoy up the foliage, so that the flowers are raised above 

 the water. 



CETRARIA ISLANDICA. Iceland Moss. 



Natural order. Lichenes. Jussieu. Cryptogamia. Linne. 

 Found by Dr. A. Nichols, on the dry hills of Danvers, and 

 by myself in similar situations in Hingham. 

 Herbarium of the Society. 



STICTA AURATA. Jlch : Methodus. 

 Golden-edged Lichen. English Botany, table 2359. 

 Description. Thallus, varying from rich dark brown to a rich 

 fawn color ; superbly edged with granulations of golden yellow. 

 Rare. (A tropical .species.) Fine specimens from trunks of 

 Pinus rigida in Kennebunk, Me., Dec., 1838. 



STICTA PULMONACEA. 



Liverwort Lichen. 



Said to be rare in fruit, but I obtained excellent specimens in 

 that condition, from Topsham, Maine, May, 1838. 



BORRERA FUHFURACEA. 



" Lichenes of New England. 3 " Tuckerman. Boston Journ. 

 Nat. Hist., vol. ii., p. 258. 



Doubtful Synonym. Evemia purpuracea. Mass. Catalogue. 



Large specimens, frequently in fruit, I have found this spring 

 in woods, on the bark of pitch pine, Chelmsford, Mass. 



B^EOMYCES ROSEI7S. Adi. MelhodllS. 



Abundant on sand near Leach pond, Plymouth, Mass. 



