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BRIEFER ARTICLES. 
Notes from Vermont.—In January last, while looking over some 
ferns at the Vermont Agricultural College, I noticed some very fine 
large specimens which did not look like anything I had ever seen be- 
fore. On closer examination they proved to be Drvopferis (Aspidium) 
marginale, but the fronds were tripinnatifid. I sent a specimen to 
Prof. Underwood and he tells me that he never saw a like develop- 
ment of this species. These specimens were collected by C. E. 
Stevens, at Colchester pond, near Fort Ethan Allen, which is also the 
only Vermont station for Woodwardia Virginica. 
Myriophyllum scabratum grows in abundance in a little pond in 
Johnson, Vermont. This is 200 miles farther north than before re- 
ported. 
Mt. Mansfield is well known as a locality for rare mosses but I can 
find no account of Zetraplodon mnioides, as coming from this locality. 
I collected this in the summer of 1893 on the skeleton of a hedgehog, 
in the swamp back of the Summit house. Aster tardiflorus was col- 
lected in Smuggler’s Notch, in the summer of 1893, being another 
rare plant to add to the long list from this locality.—A. J. Grout 
Johnson, Vermont. ; 
Other poisonous plants.—The note by Dr. Harshberger in the Api 
GazerTTE leads me to state that at least two other plants, perhaps not 
recorded as so endowed, produce in some cases an irritation or a 
sonous effects, namely: the Osage-orange (Maclura aurantiaca) 
the star-cucumber (Sicyos angulatus). A friend of mine ee 
that in working in the maclura hedges he has suffered conside ip 
and when the thorns pierce the skin they seem to leave a poise? 
the wound. : 
Another friend has been repeatedly poisoned in handling the wae 
cucumber. To me the plant is unpleasant to the touch, and flan 
larly the burr-like fruit, but it has never left any well-defined al . 
mation. Ordinary field barley, however, is extremely unpleasan 
writer, and when an awn is drawn across the wrist, for example, 
leave a line of redness for hours. d 
Some truckers, I have learned, are affected by ape The 
working in it for a few days the hands become quite swollen. 
it will 
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celery belongs to a family of which many members aoe re in 
D. Hatste> 
Some species of greenhouse aloes are also reporte 
flammation when the juice is applied to the skin BYRON 
Ruiger’s College, New Brunswick, N. J. 
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