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direction of that species. European botanists customarily consider 
the stronger parent the staminate one, though I believe horticulturists 
adduce exceptions. 
Localities where Æ. /acera and A. psychodes grow and bloom 
together should be looked over carefully for similar specimens. 
Until further information is at hand, the above seems the only 
reasonable disposition of the plant. 
WILLIAMSTOWN, MASSACHUSETTS. 
A THIRD NEW ENGLAND STATION FOR ASPLENIUM 
EBENOIDES. 
G. A. WOOLSON. 
To THE devotee of, Nature, few pleasures exceed that of a rare 
“find.” For several years I have been looking for Asplenium eben- 
oides, the suspected hybrid of A. ebenzum and Camptosorus. Late one 
afternoon last fall I found a place within the limits of Proctor, Ver- 
mont, which seemed to offer just the proper environment for this 
interesting plant. In the strength of my convictions that it should 
occur there, I returned to the.spot July 2oth, 190r. Although 4s- 
plenium ebeneum and Camptosorus rhizophyllus were in abundance 
upon the slopes of the limestone ridge, it was not until I reached the 
summit, at an elevation of perhaps 800 feet, that I found the object 
of my search, but there two small plants of Asplenium ebenoides with 
fronds varying from three to five inches in length, were discovered, 
snugly tucked down in a pocket of the rock. As a photograph of 
the environment seemed desirable, Dr. H. H. Swift was pressed 
into service. ‘This gentleman happened to walk around a rock 
which I had not explored and found another plant of the same 
kind and by all odds the finest of the lot. Several of the fronds 
measured ten inches in length, and one, a six-inch member — 
was rooting at the apex after the manner of one of its probable pro- 
genitors. This plant was sixty-eight feet from the other two, and 
was growing upon a grassy slope, with an eastern exposure. 
Three and a half feet from it was a tangled mat of Asplenium 
ebeneum and Camptosorus rhizophyllus. A similar mat occurred five 
feet from the plants in the pocket in the rock, while single specimens 
