Vol. IV., No. 5.] BULLETIN oF THE TorREY Botanica. Cius. [New York, May, 1873. 
CHAMALIRIUM, Wild.—C. luteum, Gray ; not uncommon in New 
Jersey, and on Staten Island, and probably in Westchester 
Co., though we have no report from there or Long Island; 
Ebgsbridige, N. Y. Island, W. & Z. Eminently polygamous, 
ustin. 
UVULARIA, L.—U. perfoliata, L.; common; N. Y.—U. sessilifolia, 
L.; common; N. Y. 
SMILACINA, Desf.—S. racemosa. Desf.; common; N. Y.—S. stel- 
lata, Desf.; south shore of Staten Island, W. H. Z.; Snake 
Hill, N. J., Le Roy; near Canarsie, Ruger; Zinc mines, Sussex 
Co., N. J., Austin. It is interesting to find this inland plant 
clinging to the moist thickets by the sea shore. Torrey’s 
Catalogue reports it in wet meadows, but in the State Flora it 
is said not to grow below the Highlands. The wet meadows 
perhaps were in New Jersey, but it is not now reported from 
there, excepting Snake Hill.—S. trifolia, Desf.; Orange Co., 
Austin; Westchester Co.? Le Roy, Pvoley.—sS. bifolia, Ker. ; 
most common; N. Y. 
POLYGONATUM, Tourn.—P. biflorum, Ell.; common; N. Y.—P. 
giganteum, Dietrich; “On the Island of New York,’ Le 
Conte in Torr. Cat.; Le Roy; Parsmus, Bergen Co., and near 
Troy, Morris Co., N. J. On the Palisades I have found S. bz- 
Jlora almost like this. Austin. : 
ASPARAGUS, L.—A. officinalis, L.; salt meadows &c., not uncom- 
mon. 
§ Asplenium ebnoides, R. R. Scott.—A new locality for this very 
rare species has been found by Miss Julia 8S. Tutwiler near Havana, 
in Central Alabama, We infer from her communication that the © 
number of individuals is greater than where originally found on the 
Schuylkill. As every fact connected with this singular and dis- 
puted form will interest botanists in general and fernists in particu- 
lar, we extract freely from Miss Tutwiler’s letter, which is beside 
brimful of botanical ‘spirit : 3 
“1 found it in a little magic spot, a Fairy-glen, about five miles 
from my home. You must know that we live in Central Alabama, 
on the Tertiary, in a hilly poor country of sand and red clay, with = 
long red gullies washed everywhere into the hills, but no rocks ex- 
cept pudding-stones. One day I happened to hear of beautiful 
Mossy crags and cliffs some miles away, and went to seek them. To | 
my delight and surprise, I found a little narrow glen, which seemed _ 
to have been picked up somewhere in the Blue Ridge and carried 
bodily through the air to be dropped down in this odd place. The 
Sides were precipitous crags of sandstone covered with beautiful 
ferns, mosses and vines; a rapid brook rushed through the bottom 
of the glen in a thousand little wimples. There seemed a separate 
soil and climate to this little freak of nature. I found there five 
ferns which I had never seen in any other spot around us; and the — 
real mountain saxifrage, which I had not met since I had seen it in 
the Catskills. The ferns were: a Polypodium [Phegopteris?] ; As- 
plenium ebeneum and Trichomanes; and A, ebenoides; Cheilanthes — 
_ -Vestita; and the real Walking-fern [Camptosorus], which is not, I oe 
