This nuiy be of interest in connection with the article, " A Sum- 

 mer in Salisbury, Connecticut" (Tokkeya, March, 1904), Sharon 

 beini^ not very far distant. This station was noted some time ago 

 in The Fern Bulletin. 



I am sure all these plants are correctly identified. Diyof^teris 

 s/z/ii/la/a hds been seen b)' Mr. Clute and Aspleniuin piiuiatifiliiin 

 by Mr. BisscU. 



Frederick \Vm. Kodbe. 

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Vii'.URN'UNt MOLLE Miclix. — Mr. Rehder's recent remarks on 

 this species (Rhodora, 6: 58. Mr 1904) finally clear up the 

 interesting question of the application of the name, and solve it 

 in the way Dr. Small and I have both suspected to be correct, 

 but without a definite knowledge of Michaux's type specimen, we 

 had been unable to improve upon the conclusions of Dr. Gray. 

 Mr. I'ernald's photograph of the type sheet in the Paris herbarium 

 has supplied Mr. Rehder with the desired information. In addi- 

 tion to the synonym [' Denielrioiiis Deane and Robinson, cited 

 by Mr. Rehder, should be added V. pubesccns petiolatuui Fitz- 

 patrick (Man. Flow. PI. Iowa, 140. 1899), and the range extended 

 northward to Johnson and Jefferson counties, Iowa, where the 

 shrub grows in rocky woods. 



Michaux's subspecies seuiitoiiientosiiin is taken up by Mr. 

 Rehder for the V. uiolle of Gray and more recent authors, the 

 citation being V. setnitoinentosuin (Michx.) Rehder, and the 

 range given as from Kentucky to Florida and Texas. Mr. 

 Harper's collections show that the plant occurs in Georgia. In 

 Manual, p. 871, I indicated that it might extend northward to 

 southern I'ennsjlvania ; this suggestion was based on specimens 

 with leaves but without flowers and fruit, collected by Dr. Small 

 at Smithville, Lancaster County, in September, 1897; these, in 

 their stellate pubescence and blunt teeth seem almost identical 

 with those of specimens from the south. 



X. L. Britton. 



