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WHERE OPHIOGLOSSUM GROWS 49 
found in New Michigan Pond marsh in southern West 
Fort Ann, N. Y. The 15th of June, 1907, Ophioglossum 
was found on the Anaquassacook meadows south of 
Shushan, N. Y., near the Fly Kill, which empties into 
the Battenkill river at this point. These meadows are 
low lying. The 12th of June, 1909, a few plants were 
found in a tiny wet place north of Round Lake, N. Y., 
near the creek. 
The late Mrs. Lucy A. Millington, the 19 June, 1872, 
wrote Mr. Wm. H. Leggett, from Glens Falls, N. Y., 
“Ophioglossum vulgatum I find in nearly every swampy 
bit of grass.’ There are specimens in the New York 
State Herbarium at Albany, collected by the late Dr. 
George D. Hulst on Assembly Point, Lake George, 
August, 1897, ‘“‘in damp grassy places.” Mr. Wallace 
Greenalch, of Albany, in 1907 collected Ophioglossum 
vulgatum in a “‘meadow near Winnie brook on the 
Baker farm at Schuylerville, N. Y.’”’ Mr. Frank S&S. 
Pember, of Granville, N. Y., the 21 September, 1908, 
speaks of this plant as being rather common, but gives 
no habitat. 
During the collecting season of 1913 I failed to bring 
the plant in, although I very often went where I found 
it so abundantly in 1892 and 1896. I looked more care- 
fully for it during 1914, but I did not find a dozen dwarfed 
specimens, for the loamy soil was very dry and parched. 
Can it be that the successive dry seasons of late years 
have killed the plants outright; or are the plants some- 
how carried over these years, resting as the Botrychiums 
sometimes do? I also visited during 1914 the sedgy 
swales, and found the plant growing about as abund- 
antly and luxuriantly among the tussocks as it did 18 
years ago. 
Stewart Henry BuRNHAM. 
