BULBLETS OF LYCOPODIUM LUCIDULUML 



MENTION has already been made in the Bulletin of the 

 bulblets found on many plants of this interesting species 

 which is not uncommon in moist places in rich woods. It 

 is a very hardy plant and when placed in water in a vase will keep 

 fresh and green for weeks or even months. While gathering some 

 recently ( Jan. 29 ) for this purpose, I accidentally came across the 

 little plant which is shown in the accompanying drawing. The 

 three scales of 

 the bulb were 

 yellowish-green 

 and the rest of 

 the plant, ex- 

 cept the single 

 root- fibre, was a 

 glossy green, in 

 spite of the pre- 

 vious cold weather, the ground even then being frozen. 



At this place the plants are on a very steep bank where they, 

 are continually being beaten down and covered by sliding earth 

 and leaves so that in their efforts to reach .the air very large stems 

 result ; one specimen was twenty-two ( 22 ) inches long. It repre- 

 sented a growth of fifteen years, as was determined by counting 

 its rings of larger leaves which are produced at the end of each 

 season's growth. — C. & Waters, Baltimore, Md. 



NOTES ON EQUISETUM SCIRPOIDES. 



MY experience with this plant leads me to believe that like 

 many other small plants it is considered rare because it is 

 overlooked. When growing in grassy or sedgy places it 

 would be well nigh impossible to find it in mid-summer. I made 

 my first field acquaintance with it on an April walk while the snow 

 still lingered on the shady banks. It grew in a cold, boggy 

 meadow and showed plainly above the dead leaves of last year's 

 sedge and grass. I gathered a few plants and looked at my books 

 to find out where to go for fruit. Gray's Manual said, "Fruiting 

 in summer," so I waited until after the field had been mown and 

 went back. Only after a long search was I able to find the plant, 



