92 AMERICAN FERN JOURNAL 
only from Vermont, has lately been reported from Maine, 
but O. cinnamomea frondosa Gray and variety incisa 
J. W. Huntington are fairly common, or at least not rare 
throughout the state. Ophioglossum vulgatum L., when 
once discovered, seems to spring up everywhere in moist 
meadow land, where the fronds are often eight inches 
long or longer, or in dry pastures, where the mature 
plants bear fronds only three or four inches in length. — 
The Botrychium group is represented by Botrychium 
lunaria (L.) Sw., discovered at Lake Willoughby. By 
this discovery is one single plant this interesting fern 
was added to the fern flora of New England, and as no 
_ other ‘stations have since been reported, Vermont can 
claim the honors for the fern. B. simplex Hitchcock 
oS with its varieties and forms, according to some botanists, 
os fairly common throughout the state. It was my ex- 
: perience to plan to go to St. Johnsbury and to have Miss 
ne 5 sow: me for the first time these plants, which 
previously described i in the Fern Bulletin, but 
then in Hartland.” B. obliguem ‘Mubl, ve variety 
3 cote (Gilbert) Waters and variety Gigue Gil- 
C.. — and the eer pr B. oe ee Sw. i 
Spreng., B. ternatum ee 
