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ward that it can scarcely pass as a particular rarity, still it is so local 
_in Massachusetts that it is worth while to mention a station at Hamil- 
ton, observed July 4th. The plant is growing there in a little com- 
munity of several hundred individuals, but I have found no trace of 
the species elsewhere in the vicinity, although it is frequent about 
Gloucester. 
Lynn, MASSACHUSETTS. 
A NEW STATION FOR ASPLENIUM EBENEUM HoRTONAE.— Miss K. 
A. French has the honor of discovering a new station for the beau- 
tiful plumose variety of Asplenium ebeneum called Hortonae, which 
was fully described by Mr. Davenport in RuHopora, iii. 1—2, pl. 
22, Igor. 
The discovery of this interesting fern specimen in Pittsford (Vt.) 
July, 1903, swells the fern-list of a section already noteworthy for the 
choicest species which the fern-flora of the Eastern States can offer. 
A study of environment only deepens the mystery of the origin of 
this remarkable variation. Old fronds about the base testify to the 
strength and age of the plant, the season’s growth out of doors and 
the newer fronds, which have started up since the plant has been 
cultivated indoors, are all incised and frilled alike. 
Not another plant of this kind was to be found in the locality, 
although this one was found in the midst of an abundance of the 
typical Asplenium ebeneum. Pots 
The overhanging ledge was lavishly decorated with Woodsia 
Livensis with a bit of LPolypodum vulgare here and there. No other 
Aspleniums were in the near vicinity except a few specimens of 
A. Trichomanes lower down the hill. 
All the fronds of the A. ebeneum Hortonae, both old and new, 
are thus far sterile. — G. A. WoOLsoN, Pittsford, Vermont. 
A New ENGLAND STATION FOR BUXBAUMIA INDUSIATA BRIDEL.— 
While botanizing on a mountain in Surry, New Hampshire, Septem- 
ber 3, 1902, I noticed a large decayed log upon which were growing 
hundreds of peculiar little plants that I at once recognized as Bux- 
baumias. Several smaller pieces of decayed wood in the vicinity, 
presumably portions of the same tree, were also covered with the 
strange-looking objects. I had never before seen them growing, and 
