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THE PLANT WORLD. 
specific names first used for the imperfect stage. Thus Septoria 
mirabilis is the name given years ago to a common fern rust by 
Peck, and at the time he did not recognize the fungus as a mem¬ 
ber of the Uredineae, or in anywise related to the true rusts. 
Not long since the teleutospores were discovered, inconspicuously 
buried in the tissues of the host. Dr. Magnus maintains that the 
specific name of the imperfect stage is eligible under the law of 
priority, because it was applied to the more conspicuous stage 
and the two stages are usually found associated in the same host 
plant. This is a method of selecting the specific name, however, 
distinctly prohibited by Saccardo’s rules, as the portion cited 
above clearly shows. 
{To be concluded.) 
A TREASURE SPOT OF WILD FLOWERS. 
By S. G. Streeter, 
High School, Trenton, N. J. 
There are still to be found places in New England where wild 
flowers have been able to hold their own. Back among the foot¬ 
hills of the Green Mountains on a hillside sloping sharply to the 
east, terraced by broken rocks and jagged ledges there is such 
a bit of woods, not more than twenty acres in all, where the num¬ 
ber and variety of native plants are a constant source of surprise 
and delight. 
The oldest inhabitant cannot remember that the ground was 
ever cleared. Most of the trees are maples, growing straight and 
bare for twenty or thirty feet up to the first branches. Scattered 
among them are a few beeches, iron woods, hemlocks, ash trees, 
and birches. Ferns grow in great abundance and here may be 
found varieties of lady-fern, great beds of maiden hair, clumps 
of marginal Shield-ferns, Christmas ferns scattered everywhere, 
common polypody draping the rocks, the ebony spleenwort half 
hidden in the clefts of the ledges, New York ferns filling in all 
the spaces nothing else wants and on the flat down at the bottom 
