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I cannot think that the list would stop here if I had had time to hunt 
farther. At several spots in the ravine one could count eight spe- 
cies within reach of his hand. 
I could not help noticing that the Phegopteris polypodioides and 
the P. hexagonoptera approached each other in form much more 
nearly than I had been accustomed to see in Western N. Y.; and 
I was almost in doubt whether both forms in the Catskills are not 
the same species. As seen in Western N. Y., there seems to be a 
_ wide difference between them: not only in form and size, but in 
the several amounts of potash contained in the ashes of the two 
respectively. The P, hexagonoptera (as in a previous note of mine 
in the BuLLetrn) seems to burn without leaving any other residue 
than a white globule of carbonate of potash. Still, the matter 
needs further observation and experiment. ' 
I also found, under Haines’ Falls, one specimen of Microstylis 
monophyllos, in fruit, Isaac H. Hatt. 
36 Pine Street, N. Y., Sept. 2. 
§ 113. Vandalism.—Last season a lady discovered in Hunter 
township, Greene Co., N. Y., the only locality known in the State 
of the beautiful climbing fern, Lygodium palmatum. The news 
got abroad and we are told that the plant is now completely extir- 
pated. The true lover of the vegetable world is not guilty of such | 
thoughtlessness, and often refrains from gathering a rare specimen, 
or at least the root of a perennial, from a nice sense of what appears 
a loving mercy to the plant, but is in reality a refined humanity. 
He himself may expect never to revisit the spot, but he thinks that 
some other eye may be delighted as his has been. We have 
friends who are very sensitive on this point. It would be well 
to avoid communicating the knowledge of rare localities to the un- 
discerning, or to open their eyes to the wickedness of destroying the 
helpless strangers. Connecticut has a law protecting the climbing 
ern. 
§ 114. Desmodium and Lespedeza—I was much interested by 
the notice in the April number of the Bulletin, § 89, of Desmodium 
humifusum, Beck. Twelve years ago I found it in circumstances 
entirely favorable to its being a hybrid of D. rotundifolium and 
D. rigidum, ov D, Dillenii. All three, if I mistake not, growing — 
abundantly with it. Two plants in separate localities were all I 
could find, and though I have repeatedly searched for it since, it 
has never been found again. It seems to me also very plain that 
Lespedeza Stuvei is also a hybrid between ZL, violaceaand L. hirta, 
Its appearance and situation, growing with both of the above as I 
have observed it both in Providence, R. L, and aa (0% Mass., 
carry strong conviction to my mind J. W. Conepon, 
115. New Fungi, by W. R. Grrarnp.—Wo. IV. ee 
tilbum aurifilum. (x. sp.)—Stems slender, thickened at base 
and apex, composed of smooth, orange-yellow fibres. Head 
_ globose, white, persistent after the plant is dried. — oe 
Springing in dense numbers from a web-like mycelium running 
- over the pores of Daedalea unicolor. Stems about one-twentieth | 
of an inch high. es 
_ Poughkeepsie, Aug. and Sept. : . 
