THE AMERICAN BOTANIST. 
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land do I find even one flowering plant of Pogonia verticillata, 
although, after long search I found a few low plants of it which 
ever refuse, to flower. But here I find strangers who never fre- 
quent other nearby wooded swamps. Here I find that queer freak 
of the fern world Aspidiiun crestatiun x marginule. There are 
but two plants of it in all the great sw^amp, for I've searched faith- 
fully up and down, hither and yon. These tw^o plants throw up 
long fronds, many a full yard in length and in such a variety of 
forms ! Looking as if by some misfortune, or some depredation 
of beetle or worm to have been badly mutilated. But I think no- 
thing has troubled their development but their own ''cris-cross" 
proclivities. I know of no such oddity in flowxr or fern as this . 
Close beside it are four beautiful plants of Aspidmm boottii. This 
is absent from the adjoining swamp also. On the slightly elevat- 
ed woods near this tract I find instead of the odd Pogonia a great 
profusion of Liparis liliifolia and occasional plants of L. Loeselii. 
in this swamp the poison sumac {Rhus venenata) is entirely ab- 
sent, w^hile it is very abundant in the Red Brook sw^amp. 
Nezu London, Conn. 
THE DWARF BLUE CURLS. 
By Wm. a. Terry. 
Li your note on Canning's paper on the lesser from of Bninella 
in July Botanist, you do not comment on his statement that it 
docs not flower. I have been noticing this plant for several years 
and can state that here in Bristol, Connecticut, it does flower 
abundantly. The flowers are darker in color than the common 
form, and are very small, as are the flower heads also, which grow 
nearly sessile and frequently in contact with the ground. Last 
season I noticed in the lawn of the Public Library and in several 
other lawns on High street, patches several feet in diameter, that 
were so blue with flowers as to be visible several rods away. On 
my own lawn a space twenty feet in diameter was covered with 
flowers. Canning speaks of its vegetative reproductive qualities 
Last season back of my house, beside the driveway, a plant came 
up, apparently from seed, of such mammoth proportions that I 
iiesitated about calling it Bninella, until late in the season it com- 
