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copy of Rhodora came, I read with much interest the article on Ranun- 

 culus Boreanus in Eastern New York. 



In May, 1917, Miss Edith Hutchinson of Concord, Vt, a member 

 of our club, brought to me for identification a curious buttercup that 

 grows plentifully on her father's farm. It blooms earlier than other 

 buttercups and has finely dissected leaves. I could find nothing in 

 Gray or Brftton that would fit the specimen, so preserved it until such 

 time as I could identify it. I find on examination that it exactly fits 

 the description of Ranunculus boreanus as given in Rhodora. There- 

 fore Vermont can justly lay claim to the first station for this European 

 species. Miss Hutchinson assures me that she can supply me with any 

 number of specimens next spring. 



With the death, in July, 1919, of William Everard Balch, the 

 botanists as well as all other natural scientists of Vermont, of New 

 England, and of America, lost one of their most efficient co-laborers, 

 but his matchless series of photographs of the orchids of Vermont, 

 which only lacked one Vermont species and embraced all but two 

 species ever recorded in New England, will ever be a lasting memorial 

 to his ability as a botanist and photographer. 



In closing I would like to give a few statistics of our botanical 

 work for 1919. On our flower tables at the museum we displayed dur- 

 ing the season 710 species of flowering plants, 52 of ferns and fern 

 allies and 26 of mosses and lichens, collected within a five mile radius 

 of the museum, beside a hundred or more species from mountain, lake 

 and seashore far beyond our range. 



ROCKY MOUNTAIN FLORA— WYOMING 



Ruth B. Fisher 



The section of Wyoming where I spent part of the summer has its 

 headquarters 50 miles from the railroad station, Cody. It has an 

 elevation of 6,900 feet and lies in a narrow mountain valley gouged out 

 by the south fork of the Shoshone River. About us plateaus and 

 peaks rose to elevations of 11,000, sometimes 12,000 feet, and over. 

 From "The Ranch,*' so called because it was a resting place for tourists, 

 we made pack trips of several days length to the surrounding wilder- 

 nesses. These were to the Thoroughfare Country adjoining the south- 

 east of Yellowstone park, Boulder basin, and the Shoshone plateau 

 which separates the headwaters of the Shoshone, GreybuU and Wind 



