Notes anp NeEws 125 
A Goop Fryp.—In a damp and shady ravine on the 
side of Rattlesnake Hill, Concord, N. H., some four 
hundred feet above sea level, Mrs. Carrie J. Elkins has 
discovered one plant of Polystichum Braunii. Search 
has revealed no more specimens, though granite dumps 
may cover others. The different authorities on ferns 
state this species to be found more or less frequently in 
Nova. Scotia, New Brunswick and Quebec, Michigan, 
northern New England, the Lake George region and even 
in Pennsylvania along the mountains, but no mention 
1s made of central New Hampshire. There is, however, 
one plant of P. Braunii in the centre of New Hampshire 
and I have seen it. 
SarRaH F, SANBORN. 
: A writer in the Philadelphia North American says that 
Some mysterious influence in the sunlight causes the 
fronds of the maidenhair spleenwort to wave backward 
and forward for a brief time after the plant has been 
brought into the light. Only the fertile fronds know 
oe trick and they are most active in the middle of the 
: OPHiogLossum vuiGaTum L. iy MontaNna.—This rare 
‘mm was found on the grounds of the University of 
Montana Biological Station at Yellow Bay, Flathead 
“omg by Miss Bessie Green in 1914. Since then it has 
®en taken by a number of people at the Station. This 
‘hag sufficient plants were found to supply specimens 
i. all of the botanists attending, about a half dozen. 
o ge are several fruiting patches growing on the edge 
the Ittle meadow near the Station building. Early in 
ne Season this meadow is submerged. This year the 
aie did not disappear until about the middle of July. 
far as | know, this species has not before been re- 
Ported from Montana. 
Morton J. Exrop. 
