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to be almost as great strangers in this—the south-eastern part of 
the State. - L. H. Hoysrapr. 
Pine Plains, N. Y., Sept. 21, 1874. : 
§ 110. Publications.—We have received: 1. Zhe American Gar- 
den, New Series. Vol. I, No. 1, a Monthly Illustrated Journal, 
Devoted to Garden Art, edited and conducted by James Hogg. 
Beach Son & Co., Publishers, 76 Fulton St., Brooklyn, N. Y.—2. 
Revised Catalogue of North American Ferns, compiled by Wm. 
Edwards, South Natick, Mass., Aug. 1874. Price of Catalogue, 
25 cents per dozen. The varieties “peculiar to North America” 
are marked with an asterisk. Is not Pellea Wrightiana one of 
these ?—3. Psyche, No. 5.—4. A prospectus of a Mycotheca 
Universalis, by F. Baron Thumen, Bayreuth, Bavaria. Three cen- 
tenaries, ‘‘ by no means more,” of exsiccated fungi, “loosely wrap- 
ped in paper envelopes,” will be issued yearly at 15 francs a cen- 
tenary. 
§ 111. Block Island has not been wellexplored. Dr. Robbins was _ 
there in Sept. 1829, and made discovery of some rare New England 
plants, and I have been there ocvasionally since. i 
Rarities—i. The large white lily of the pond near the Spring 
House is probably Nymphaea tuberculosa, Paine, S. 7. O., 1874.—2. 
Arenaria squarrosa, Mchx., Robbins, 1829.—3. Myriophyllum 
scabratum, Mchx., Robbins, 1819, 8.7. O., 1848! and Point Judith, 
1848,—4, Hydrocotyle interrupta, DC., 1848, 8.7.0.—5. Anagallis — 
arvensis, L., 1848, 8.7.0., also Newport R.L, Geo Hunt.—6. — 
Blitum rubrum, Reich. (B. maritimum, Nutt.), S. T. O., 1848. 
—i. Leptochloa fascicularis, Gray, Robbins, 1829; 8.7. 0., 1848. 
Fine specimens of Rumex maritimus, L., and extreme glaucous 
_ forms of Polygonum glaucum, Nutt., occur here. S. P.O 
Providence, Set. 12, 1874. ci 
§ 112 Catskill Ferns.—During a short stay at the Catskills, re — 
cently, I found a locality of the Aspidium aculeatum, var, Braunll, 
in the Clove ravine. I do not know whether the locality is new oF 
not. Near by I found a limited locality of Pella gracilis, Hook. 
This locality of the Aspidium aculeatum, var. Braunii, seems t?- 
consist mainly of thrifty new plants: no plants appearing to be 
more than three years old. Another station of this fern was 
discovered in the same. ravine, at about: the same time, about hab 
a mile farther down, by Miss Emily Jenkins, of New York City. 
This last mentioned station seemed to consist almost exclusively © 
very yourg plants, quite numerous, and all very thrifty. In 
same ravine, within the space of a very few rods, I detected © 
following nineteen species of ferns: Polypodium vulgare, 
Pteris aquilina, L., Pellaea gracilis, Hook, Asplenium Trichomal 
ZL, A, filix-foemina, Bernh., Phegopteris polypodioides, Fee, 
hexagonoptera, Fée, P. Dyopteris, Fée, Aspidium Thelypter 
Swartz, A. Noveboracense, Swartz, A. Spinulosum, Swartz, (small 
var. of A.dilatatum, Swartz), A.marginale, Swartz., A. acrostich' 
Swartz, A. aculeatum, Swartz, var, Braunii, Koch, Cystopteris 
sip, bt Onoclea sensibilis, L.,W oodsia Ivensis, &. Br., 0! 
a Claytonia, Z., 0. cinnamonea, Z. Outside of the ravine 1! 
also Osmunda regalis, Z., and Dicksonia punctilobula, Kunze 
