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botanical excursion in the dusk of the evening, one day last Febru- 
ary, I picked up near Vineland, on a piece of the cast off bark of a 
dead maple, what in the uncertain light I took to be a Cyphella or 
some similar fungus, but which, on a more careful examination at 
home, turned out to be a Sphaeria, agreeing so well with the charac- 
ters of S. darbirostris, Duf., that I was led to believe it to be in 
reality that species; though, in the absence of any account of the 
fructification in the description, the question of identity could not 
of course, be decided with certainty. I concluded, therefore, as the 
species was originally found in France, to send a specimen for iden- 
tification to Dr. M. Cornu. Most fortunately, this gentleman hap- 
pened to have in his possession a small, but authentic specimen, col- 
lected by Dufour himself in the year 1832. On a careful compari- 
son, M. Cornu gave it as his opinion, that my fungus was the verita- 
ble Sphaeria barbirostris of Dufour, which has never before been 
found since its first discovery in the department of Landes, over 
forty years ago. In M. Cornu’s specimen the perithecia are on the 
bare wood of oak; in the Vineland specimen they are on the inner 
surface, and between the loosened laminae of the maple bark—at 
first buried in the bark, which is soon pierced and thickly studded 
with the ostiola, which, again, are beset with a thick growth of short 
yellowish-brown horizontally spreading hairs. The ostiola were in 
some cases nearly 4 of an inch long, but mostly about half that 
length. The asci are cladate-cylindric, and about .oo2’ long—spor- 
idia oblong-cylindric, hyaline, and mostly about .0003’ long, by about 
half as wide. 
It may be noted here that Peziza hypnicola, (Vol. 6, p. 134, Bull. 
Torr. Club), turns out to be a Lichen—Gyalecta. 
Newfield, N. J., May 16, 1878. 3. B:. Evuis; 
§ 238. Lygodium palmatum. Southern localities.—To the 
specification on p. 221, I am enabled to add the following : 
ast. Transylvania Co., N. C., on the table land of the Blue 
Ridge, on the road from Buck Forest Hotel to Ceesar’s Head, a few | 
miles north of the State line. Here it was seen (growing abundantly 
in the copses by the way-side,) by Dr. Gray, Dr. Engelmann, Mr. 
Canby and myself in Sept., 1876. 
2d. Rockcastle Co., Ky., about too miles S. E. from Louisville. 
In the mountains of this county Mr. John Williamson has recently 
found a new locality where “a cliff 25 or 50 feet high, and about 200 
yards in length is literally overgrown with this fern, every available 
shrub or bush forming a support for it to twine upon.” Mr. Wil- 
liamson, in his work upon the Ferns of Kentucky, now in progress, 
will doubtless give us full details concerning this and other interest- 
ing fern localities of that State. 
May 16, 1878. Joun H. REDFIELD. 
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