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in some places large holes are hid by weeds & bushes, & every step, 
one is in danger of breaking a leg or falling into a gulph.—Here 
I found plenty of Actea spicata, chiefly with red berries, but Some 
of the plants had beautifull white berries, looking like waxwork. 
—This is the Red & White Cohosh: the blue Cohosh likewise grows 
in plenty here. Xylosteum tartaricum is in abundance, Ptelea tri- 
foliata, Geranium Robertianum, Lonicera glauca, with very narrow 
leaves, Taxus baccata or procumbens calld Ground Hemlock—Poly- 
podium Dryopteris a species of Clematis seemingly new to me. 
Satyrium repens—Circea alpina—Chrysosplenium alternifolium— 
Pyrola umbellata in flower—Arum triphyllum, Asplenium rhizo- 
phyllum & what I thought the most of Asplenium Scolopendrium 
—this fern which I don’t find mentioned by any one to grow in 
America I allways had a notion to be here; and indeed I was quit 
enjoyed to find my prejudice so well founded in truth.” 
We wish we had space to go on. He says a page or two before 
that Squire Geddes lives about six miles from Onondaga Hollow, 
northwest. 
About 1830, Mr. William Cooper discovered the station at Chit- 
tenango Falls, more than twenty miles east of Onondago, and long 
_ the only known locality of the plant in America. In 1857, it was 
__,found at Owen Sound in Canada by Prof. William Hincks, and since 
_ then by others in the parts adjacent. In March, 1866, Mr. Lewis 
_ Foote found it about five miles south east from Syracuse, on the line 
of the Syracuse and Binghamton Railroad. In June of the same 
year, Mr. J. A. Paine, Jr., visiting that region for the purpose of ver- 
ifying Pursh’s station, found one or two others near Mr. Foote’s on 
the talus of limestone cliffs near Little Lake, Green Pond and White 
Lake. On visiting Mr. George Geddes, son of the J. Geddes of 
Pursh, he was informed by that gentleman that the spot where it was 
first discovered was nearly five miles west of Syracuse and half a 
mile south of his father’s house, near but not on the farm, along a high 
ledge (“ Split Rock”) about a celebrated sulphur spring. Split Rock 
- _is a limestone formation ; “ probably one hundred and fifty feet high 
and over half a mile long, semicircular, with a brook at its base on 
whose bank is the sulphur spring.”” The slope beneath the cliff, Mr. 
Paine says, was once a station favorable for Harts-tongue, but in 
consequence of clearing it is to be feared that plant has perished. 
Mr. Paine is probably right in concluding that Nuttall’s is merely a 
confirmation of Pursh’s habitat, and that the “ Canadaigua”’ of the 
traditional label, which does not now exist, was a mistake for Onon- 
daga. Vid. Amer. Jour. Sci. & Arts. 2nd. Ser. Pity thie cooly, 
281; May & Sept. 1866. This fern has also been found at Chiapas, 
Mex. [Eaton.] 
In a letter to the editor Mrs. Rust announces the re-discovery of 
this long sought locality, as follows : . 
SYRACUSE, Sept., 30th, 1879. 
_ The Syracuse Botanical Club have been fortunate again in re- 
discovering the station on the Geddes farm for Scolopendrium 
vulgare. 
