12 Joint Bulletin 8 



sula and occurs in the Selkirks and on Vancouver Island. In these 

 places it is on serpentine rock, and a professor of geology tells me that 

 asbestos is derived from serpentine rock. 



This station on Belvidere Mountain may be destroyed at no distant 

 ' day as they are mining the asbestos rock for commercial purposes. 



The second day's trip was to Hazen's Notch between Lowell Moun- 

 tain and Montgomery Mountain. The frowning cliffs, almost perpen- 

 dicular on the notch side, kept the majority of the party from the 

 climb to the top of Montgomery Mountain, but two of the party did it 

 from another direction and came back with one of the mountain 

 saxifrages, Saxifraga Aizoon and Clematis verticillaris. The rest of 

 us, made lazy by the heat, wandered around in a rather small area, but 

 found Braun's holly fern, Polystichum Braunii, and the maidenhair 

 spleenwort, Asplenium TricJiomanes in the rocky woods, and strangest 

 of all the sweet William, Dianthus barbatus. in the woods not far from 

 the road. We looked around for signs of an old habitation but found 

 nothing except a few stones that looked as if the hand of man had 

 once thrown them together for some purpose. This plant is very 

 persistent, as I know of a place where no one has lived for 25 years 

 where it still grows and blooms along with Artemisia pontica. 



The third day opened with rain and it was afternoon before we 

 could get out to explore. We went to Black Palls, but nothing note- 

 worthy was found. A few stopped at the station for Polypodium 

 vulgare var. cambricum. This fern as lately shown by Prof. M. L». 

 Fernald in Rhodora for July, 1922, should be called Polypodium vir- 

 ginianum L. forma bipinnatifldum Fernald. 



While this meeting was not as productive of new plants as some 

 we have had, the new maidenhair fern makes up for that and at least 

 we now know something of what is to be found in this territory. 



THE REVISION OF THE VERMONT FLORA 



Nellie F. Flynn 



The writer was appointed chairman of a committee to revise the 

 Vermont Flora and Dr. Ezra Brainerd of Middlebury, Dr. George P. 

 Burns of Burlington, Dana S. Carpenter of Middletown Springs and 

 Harold G. Rugg of Hanover, N. H., have been chosen as the other 



