8 . Joint Bulletins 4 and 5 



ADDITIONS TO WEST RIVER VALLEY FLORA 



Leston A. Wheel t r 



The following plants new or rare in West River valley were 

 collected in 1917: Oxalis filipes. Brookline and Townshend; Hieraciunt 

 floribundum. Brookline; Antennaria canadensis. Asplenium angusti- 

 folium., Arabis hirsuta. Jamaica; Aspidimn spinulosum, Brattleboro:< 

 Aconitum Xapellus, Newfane and Stratton, the latter on Deerfield river 

 section; Potentilla pumila, Newfane, Saxtons River; Selaginella apus. 

 Lycopodium clavatum var. monostachyon, Sagina procumbens. Phlox 

 paniculata, Newfane; Polystichum Braunii. (W. H. Blanchard's station), 

 Medicago satiua. Lychnis clialcedonica, Galium verum. Townshend. 



The following notes may prove interesting: Ophioglossum vulga- 

 turn, was collected from 16 colonies during the past season, all new to 

 me; one colony, beside Grout pond in Stratton, altitude 2,225 feet, 

 produced the largest and finest fronds that I ever saw. 



Two plants of Botrychium obliquum, with double fertile fronds 

 were found. One frond of the type and one of the variety were col- 

 lected from the same root of Polystichum acrostichoides. One frond of 

 Osmunda regalis. measuring 24 by 54 inches, w r as collected and one of 

 Onoclea scnsibilis with the fertile frond 26 inches and the sterile 49 

 inches in height were found. A beautifully dense feathery form of 

 Lycopodium clavatum was found in Newfane. The red flowered form 

 of Lillium canadense was collected in Townshend growing with the 

 type and with an intermediate form. 



ALONG HIGHWAY AND CROSS-COUNTRY IN 



OKLAHOMA 



Alice E. Bacon 



It is a far cry from Bradford, Vt., to Lawton, Okla. Lawton is in 

 the extreme southwestern part of the state, three miles from Fort Sill 

 and Camp Doniphan, which are on a government reservation of some 

 70,000 acres, which only a year ago was a paradise for flower lovers. 

 Where now barracks and tenches, aviation fields and observation towers, 

 rifle ranges and cannon, soldiers in the United States artillery and 

 recruits in the process of training reign supreme, only a short time 

 ago was largely given over to the prairie dog and jack rabbit and Molly 

 cottontail and the coyote, and was covered with a carpet of flowers 

 that rivaled California's boasted fields. 



