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Habenaria fimbriata was found growing abundantly in Lunenburg 

 in July. 



NOTES ON WEST RIVER FLORA 



(Abstract) 

 Leston A. Wheel* r 



Although other matters have made an unusual demand on my 

 time the past season what time I have been able to give to botanical 

 pursuits has yielded some good results. Among new stations for 

 plants previously reported may be mentioned several for Polysticum 

 acrostichoides var. Schiceinitzii : two for Botrychium obliquum var. 

 dissectum and one each for Amelanchier sanguined, Monotropa 

 Hypopitys and Juncus marginatus in Townshend. Hesperis matronal is 

 was found in Newfane and Lillium philadelphicum in Dummerston. 



Plants collected for the first time were: Osmunda cinnamomea with 

 fertile frond like the type and one like the variety frondosa. in Towns- 

 hend; potentilla canadensis and its variety in Townshend; Veronica 

 Tournefortii. Anthemis arvensis var. agrestis. Oxalis stricta. Galium 

 Mollugo. Juncus effusus var. solutus and Juncus secundus, all in Towns- 

 hend; Juncus tenuis var. Williamsii. Newfane, Townshend, Jamaica 

 and Stratton; Antennaria fallax and Carex laxiculmis var. copulata in 

 Newfane; Mcllilotus officinalis in Dummerston; Lychnis dioica. 

 Galinsoga parviflora var. liispida and Xanthium comm.une in Brattle- 

 boro (two last not from West River territory). At the Newfane meet- 

 ing of the American Fern society Aspidium Goldianum, Asplenium 

 angustifolium. Polystichum Braunii, Potentilla tridentata, Habenaria 

 macrophylla, Senecio aureus. Carex retroflera. C. Stellulata var. ex- 

 ' Isis and Lychnis chalccdonica were found. 



QUERCUS AMBIGUA MICHX 



George P. Burns 



When I first visited Ethan Allen park to study the oaks, I was 

 puzzled by the appearance, bark, leaves and fruit of some of the trees 

 found there. An examination of the literature at hand seemed to 

 show that these trees were Quercus ambigua Michx., which the last 

 Gray Manual gives as a variety of Quercus rubra L. This seemed to 



