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ually round the base and sides of hummocks. The 

 plants that are still green and growing are always ex- 

 posed in the short turf. Whenever the plant has had 

 shelter by growing under a cedar or in sedge grass or 

 in a clump of tall thelypteris it has fruited in July and 

 faded. I gathered three such plants a week ago and 

 their height was respectively, 9, 11 and 12 inches. The 

 plants that are only now in season range from half an 

 inch to four inches in height. Though thus stunted 

 they are evidently healthy and at least fifty percent of 

 them fruit abundantly. 



Port Hope, Ontario. 



BOTRYCHIUM LANCEOLATUM IN NORTHERN 

 VERMONT 



BY E. J. WINSLOW. 



Last July while botanizing in the vicinity of Jay 

 Peak, Vt., I found in the woods near the base of the 

 mountain a single specimen of Botrychium lanceola- 

 tum. The plant was small but unquestionable. It 

 was my first collection of this species, and the first I 

 have seen reported from that part of the state. Eggle- 

 ston, in the "Fern Flora of Vermont," (Fern Bulletin 

 XIII, 2), says in two places that B. lanceolatnm is only 

 found in the lowlands of the southern part of the state. 

 So this find almost on the Canadian line and at an 

 elevation of upwards of 1500 feet seems worthy of 

 note. Like most of the States, Vermont has large 

 areas practically unexplored by botanists, and it is un- 

 safe to say that any plant with a northward range is 

 confined to a particular part of the state. 



