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NOTES 



New Form of Interrupted Fern 



The curious interrupted fern from Bridgewater Corners, discov- 

 ered some years ago by Mrs. W. E. Mack of West Woodstock, and 

 exhibited to the club, has been examined by several fern specialists, 

 and a description and pnotographs will soon be published in the Fern 

 Journal. It will be known as Osmunda Claytoniana, forma Mackiana. 

 —E. M. Kittredge. 



White- Flowered Poly gala 



Several plants of Polygala paucifolia bearing pure white flowers 

 were found near the village of Proctor by a school girl and later iden- 

 tified by a visitor in the Proctor Library, where the children took 

 their plants to compete for the prize offered by the librarian. Nature 

 work such as is encouraged by the Proctor and Vergennes libraries — 

 and others — is of the greatest benefit to the communities. Would that 

 all villages maintaining libraries or community houses would see 

 the advantage to their residents of teaching the children the value and 

 beauty of the birds and flowers of the vicinity — E. M. Kittredge. 



Hartland Nature Club 



During the July, 1922, meeting of the Hartland Nature Club, held 

 at North Hartland, nearly 150 plants were observed, and many of the 

 less common were collected for the club herbarium. Of these latter 

 several are of interest to the state at large. Mrs. A. B. Morgan dis- 

 covered Selaginella apus in a little depression of the pasture which 

 was the scene of most of the "birding and botanizing" of the day. 

 This so far as we know makes the fourth station for this species. 

 Brassica Napus, in fruit, was collected near the woolen mill, and Ver- 

 bena hastata X urticaefolia, growing with both parents in fine flower, 

 on the river bank by Miss Kittredge. Through the courtesy of the 

 club the latter specimen was presented to the New York Botanical 

 Garden in response' to Dr. Pennell's request for a specimen from that 

 locality. The wound-wort Stachys palustris, Great St. John's wort, 

 Hypericum Ascyron. and the small forget-me-not, Myosotis laxa were 

 considered good finds in that field. Further down the sandy shore was 

 carpeted with the creeping spearwort, Ranunculus Flammula var. 

 reptans. and the banks were gay with quantities of the beautiful 

 swamp milk-weed, Asclepias incarnata. — E. M. Kittredge. 



