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and transplanted them to my fern garden at Buck Hill 
Falls, Pa., where they have done very well, though the 
location is too dry to be an ideal one for ferns. Though 
these four plants bear fruiting fronds each year, there 
has been no increase in their numbers, either from spore 
growth or from buds from the roots. 
Two years after I had obtained my specimens I 
returned to the place but saw no more plants of the kind, 
either there or in the neighborhood, nor in frequent 
visits since have I ever found a single specimen. I 
never am in a damp meadow without being on the 
lookout for Ophioglossum, but have never been rewarded 
by finding any. 
WALTER MENDELSON. 
OPHIOGLOssuM BuppinG From a Roor. An herbar- 
ium specimen sent in by Mr. Winslow from a collection 
made in Vermont, seems to show indubitable evidence 
of the development of a new plant of Ophioglossum 
vulgatum from a root. On the specimen on question, 
a small plant appears attached near the end of a long 
root of a large fertile plant. 
Ferns or Lake SPOONER. Lake Spooner (formerly 
called Mud Lake) is about three miles from the tow? 
of the same name in Washburn County in northwesterm 
Wisconsin. It is a narrow, irregularly shaped lake and 
contains four wooded islands. It is fed by Mud Creek 
and drained by the Yellow River, a tributary of the 
St. Croix. The country about the lake was once covered 
with extensive forests of white pine, now nearly all cut 
down. A few years ago the author made an intensive 
study of the vegetation of one of the islands and listed 
seven ferns. Since then the oak and the spinulose wood 
ferns have established themselves on this island; while 
