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aquilinum. On speaking of it to a naturalist, Mr. Hales, he 

 said it was originally brought to Ridgewood from the South by 

 a Mr. Fuller, who had an experimental garden. It would not 

 grow on his ground, so he gave some to Mr. Hales, who has a 

 reclaimed meadow for a garden, and there the plant was much 

 more beautiful — a large clump, twenty-five years old, fully 

 four feet around and about that high, while what I found was 

 only about a foot to a foot and a half high and not so thrifty. 

 This same Mr. Fuller gave some to the people who own this lot 

 and it has grown in their garden. Now this lot is about a 

 quarter of a mile from this garden where the original plant was, 

 so it has spread by means of the wind or birds. The odd fact to 

 me is, that though it grows in " damp soil " it has not spread 

 from Mr. Hale's garden, but from the latter place which is very 

 high and dry, this part of Ridgewood being one of the highest 

 parts of Bergen County. 



LYCOPODIUM TRISTACHYUM 



By E. J. Hill 



When Prof. Lloyd's article " Two hitherto confused Species 

 of Lycopodium" (Bull. Torr. Club, 27: 559. 1899) appeared, 

 my specimens, labeled L. complanatum L., were examined with a 

 view to test them by the characters mentioned and several of 

 them were found to agree with the description of L. tristacliyum 

 Pursh {L. Chamaecyparissus A. Braun). Some had already been 

 designated by this name as varietal, and their peculiarities noticed. 

 One of these was the burial of the rhizome from three to nine 

 centimeters below the surface of the ground, considerable dig- 

 ging often being required to uncover them. They have all been 

 found in sandy soil, in woods of pine or mixed pine and oak. 

 The rhizomes and the basal parts of the aerial shoots are pale, 

 being blanched by exclusion of the light. The ultimate branches 

 are numerous and crowded, commonly narrower and much less 



