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California Plants Defy Jack Frost 



Mrs. Mary A. Loveland of Norwich writes: "A package of wild 

 flower seeds sent me from California gave much pleasure as the plants 

 grew well and blossomed. To my surprise they withstood frost better 

 than some of our cultivated annuals. A bouquet was picked in Novem- 

 ber. Among those identified were the California poppy, phacelia, lupine 

 and clarkia." 



New Selaginella Station 



Harold G. Rugg of Hanover, N. H., collected Selaginella apus at 

 Reading in August, 1918. This is the third Vermont station. 



Mr. Rugg also reports a new station for Aspidium filix-mas concern- 

 ing which he writes: "It may be well to record my station for the 

 male fern in Rochester. The plants were growing at an elevation of 

 2,400 feet and very near some plants of Aspidium spinulosum. They 

 were beside an old road which leads from the Rochester-Randolph gap 

 to the ruined summit house on top of Mount Cushman. 



New Station for Eqtjisetum Pratense 

 Clarence H. Knowlton of Hingham, Mass., while touring Vermont 

 last summer (1918) called on J. G. Underwood at Hartland. Together 

 they visited that famous botanical ground, Hart Island, and in the 

 alluvial, sandy land on the bluff at the upper end of the island, under 

 shrubs and vines, they collected an equisetum which Mr. Knowlton 

 stated he believed was E. pratense. This identification has been con- 

 firmed by Prof. M. L. Fernald. 



Nesting of Brown Creeper 

 D. E. Kent of Rutland writes as follows in regard to the nesting 

 of the brown creeper: "Nesting brown creepers are considered rare 

 in and near Rutland county. Some half dozen years ago I found a nest 

 at Pine's pond near Lake Bomoseen, where flooding had killed good 

 sized trees. This was the only locality in which I had ever seen the 

 bird in the nesting period until the spring of 1917 when I found them 

 to be common about Chittenden dam in Chittenden. On June 1, 1918, 

 Owen Durfee of Fall River, Mass., G. L. Kirk of Rutland and the writer 

 were at the reservoir formed by the dam and we found that there were 

 probably 10 to 12 pairs of creepers nesting in a flooded forest. Inunda- 

 tion had caused the death of many large trees and in those which 

 were in just the right stage of decay the bark hung loosely, forming 

 ideal conditions for the peculiar homes of these birds. We found one 

 nest containing six partly incubated eggs." 



