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tropical specimens) and are tripinnate, with winged primary and 
secondary rachises, and more or less deeply pinnatifid pinnules; 
the ultimate lobes or teeth having but asingle veinlet. The relation- 
ship of the plant is to 4. myriophyllum of Presl, which Hooker has 
considered to be a variety of A. rhizophyllum, but the present fern 
has less dissected, broader, and more rigid fronds. It is a common 
species in the West Indies, and in several countries of South America. 
Mr. Shockley also collected A. myriophyllum in Florida, not far from 
the place where he discovered A. firmum. 
New HAVEN Oc¢. 12, 1878. D. C. EATon, 
I am not responsible for a very stupid blunder in one of the last 
plates of my Fern Book, where “ Polépodium vulgare” is printed 
under a figure of Pol. Scouleri, and ot Schizaea is put “ Shizaea.” sf 
D, Co: 
§ 264. Calluna vulgaris in New Jersey.—By the kindness of 
Dr. Hexamer in a letter to Mr. Isaac C. Martindale, Mr. Charles F. 
Parker, one of the Curators of the Academy of Natural Sciences of 
- Philadelphia, and I were very very well directed to the exact spot where 
the Calluna vulgaris is growing, about two miles from Egg Harbor 
City, New Jersey. The appearances are very well calculated to 
create a first impression that it is indigenous. There is but a single 
plant, but it has been growing there some years, and the .sand has 
blown in among the branches, and these have rooted, giving the 
appearance of a mass of plants. All the main branches are what a 
gardener would call “fan shaped,” showing that it was originally 
planted there,—a bunchy plant having been pressed against a flat 
surface, as in planting a garden edge of dwarf box. Not far from 
the plant is a hole, which, though among scrub oak and bushes, might 
have been intended fora cellar for a small house and from the bottom 
of which came out a nearly dead peach tree. I could see that the tree 
was probably eight or nine years old, and I knew the Peach was not 
‘indigenous. It led me to inquire, and I found that some twelve 
years ago a man named Habersak came to those parts from England 
and intended to build a little house; that he could not pay the 
ground rent, and went off and left for parts unknown. It is a very 
common thing for foreigners to bring the heather with them. On 
the Atlantic last year I saw not a few with these treasures carefully 
looked after in moss and in pots. I feel no hesitation in deciding 
that this plant is not indigenous here. If I am not mistaken in the 
identity, this Mr, Habersak was located near Warrenton, Virginia, 
four or five years ago, and no doubt, if any one could find him, the 
exact date of the planting could be got. f 
Considering how easy it is to be deceived, would it be worth 
while to go over again the circumstances surrounding other Ameri- 
can localities for this plant? One thing we may be sure of, this 
plant has been brought over from Europe by emigrants for a hun- 
dred years or more past. Some would have no place of their own 
suitable to grow it,-would be very likely to “stick it in’”’ somewhere, 
and, when they left, no one would know si it, as in this case. It will at 
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