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handsomer than the house ferns usually cultivated and it is easily- 

 grown. This plant, received in 1913 from Lake Helen, Pla., has been 

 once divided and yet it measured last winter one yard in height and 

 width. It produced yearly several beautiful fronds. 



The following ferns, grown together in one pot, were sent from 

 Lakeland, Fla., in 1919: Woodwardia virginica (L.) Sm., which fruits; 

 Woodwardia areolata (L.) Schott.; Dryopteris floridana (Hook) 

 Kuntze, and a delicately beautiful fern unknown to Miss Darling. All 

 are living and each has produced several new fronds. 



Eragrostis at Shushan, N. Y. 



Frank Dobbin of Shushan, N. Y., writes: "It may be of interest 

 to club members, particularly in Rutland and Bennington Counties, that 

 I found three species of Eragrostis, not given in the Vermont Flora, 

 near my home, which is about three miles from the Vermont border, 

 viz.: Eragrostis Frankii (Fisch. Mey & Lall.) Steud.; E. Eragrostis 

 (L.) Karst. ; E. peregrina Wiegand., all growing on gravelly soil. 

 These have been identified for me by the New York Botanical Garden 

 and Professor Hitchcock of the Bureau of Plant Industry, Washington, 

 D. C. 



A Giant Amelanchier 



The shadbush is generally found as a shrub or small tree in central 

 Vermont, but the writer happened upon a specimen in Mendon during 

 July, 1921, which was a veritable giant of its kind. The tree, Amelan- 

 chier laevis Wiegand., stood 40 feet high and its trunk measured 16 

 inches in diameter six feet above the ground. The tree had the 

 spreading form of an apple tree rather than the usual slimmer type 

 of the shad. The specimen is in a pasture on the Gleason farm. — 

 George L. Kirk. 



Red Mulberry in Rutland County 



In September, 1921, the writer collected Morus rubra L. in West 

 Haven, a number of the trees growing on a ledge. At the same place 

 was found Quercus muhlemhergii Engelm. The mulberry had here- 

 tofore been found in Vermont only at Pownal and this is an extension 

 of its range in the State about 50 miles northward. The Flora gives 

 only two stations for the oak, both in the Champlain valley. — G. H. 

 Ross. 



