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V. blanda, growing in spring bogs, is quite distinct from V. blanda 

 in leaf mould of woodlands. In Tryon, N. C, the species is quite 

 glabrous, lacks the characteristic white hairs on the upper surface of 

 the leaf. 



NEW PLANTS FOR STATE 



Nellie F. Flynn 



Three plants new to the State Flora were found by me growing 

 as weeds in the State nursery at Burlington, in June, 1920. They were: 

 Jagged chickweed, Holosteum umbellatum; whitlow grass, Draba 

 verna; and mouseear cress, Sisymbrium Thalianum. 



In October, I found the pretty spurge, Euphorbia peplus, growing 

 as a weed in gardens and by roadsides in Vergennes. It was, I then 

 supposed, the fourth station in the State, but I have since run across 

 a letter from the late Cyrus G. Pringle to Prof. L. R. Jones, written in 

 the nineties, saying he found the plant in Vergennes in 1873, and 

 probably again at Charlotte, at Horsford's garden, so it must be the 

 sixth station, and is rather a persistent weed. 



H. C. Ridlon, in his paper, "A Season's Botanizing in Bennington," 

 speaks of finding Sedum ternatum and of it not being in the Flora of 

 Vermont. It is not the first station, as Mrs. W. E. Mack, of West 

 Woodstock, has known of a station for it for many years, which should 

 have gone into the Flora, and there is a station for it at Rock Point, in 

 Burlington. 



Mrs. L. Frances Jolley found horsemint, Monarda punctata, grow- 

 ing in Highgate the past summer. This is the sixth station in the 

 State. 



A SEASON'S BOTANIZING IN BENNINGTON 



H. C. Ridlon 



It was in the month of May, 1920, that I came to Bennington to 

 live, and began seeking, in what to me were new fields, for Nature's 

 plant treasures. Previously all my botanizing had principally been 

 done in Windsor and Rutland counties, so I hailed with delight this 

 opportunity to find and know the plants which are not often found 

 far from Vermont's western border. 



