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_ We have just returned from a trip there to-day. As this ravine 
is on private grounds, we have not felt at liberty to go there to in- 
vestigate it, as many of us have long wished to do; but when Miss 
Geddes invited several of us out to decide on her Botrychium which - 
I have already written to you about, B. Lunaria, I said that I had 
long doubted Solopendrium ever having been found there, but now 
I believed it had, for the lime-stone cliffs were very like those near 
Jamesville Green Lake. But as a violent storm set in, we could not 
investigate them as we wished. ° 
Mr. Geddes told me that his father had a pressed specimen which 
was found there by some great English botanist in his grandfather’s 
time, but he thought it had all been uprooted, as so many botanists 
had been there in pursuit of it since and had been unsuccessful in— 
findingany. Quite a number from other places who have been to me 
to direct them where to find it have told me that they had been on 
the Geddes farm but there was none there. Then too our State 
Botany says that Mr. Nuttall’s specimens in the herbarium of the _ 
Academy of Sciences in Philadelphia are marked “ near Canandaigua _ 
at Geddes’ farm, in a shady wood, with ‘Taxus Canadensis.” 
The Geddes farm is not in or wear Canandaigua, but some ~ 
five miles west of us, but Scolopendrium is there with Taxus 
Canadensis, Camptosorus rhizophyllus, Asplenium Trichomanes, 
A. angustifolium and many other common ferns, as I can testify, 
and what astonished us most was that there seemed to be quite a 
good deal of it. 
Mary Ouiva Rust. 
§ 350. Scolopendrium vulgare discovered in Tennessee.—A 
correspondent in Teniiessee sent me a collection of ferns a few weeks 
ago to have them properly named. I must say they were a very hard 
looking lot, most of them being only represented bya single pinna. I 
was astonished to find among them a small piece of Scolopendrium 
vulgare, but quite enough to show the character of the species. In 
this collection I also found Chetlanthes Alabamensis, Kunze; Chetlan- — 
thes vestita, Swartz; Cheilanthes tomentosa, Link ; Woodwardia angus- 
tifolia, Smith; Woodwardia Virginica, Smith; Asplentum parvulum, 
‘Mart. & Gale; Asplenium Bradleyi, D.C. Eaton; Osmunda cinna- 
momea, L, var. frondosa. The other ferns were those of general 
distribution. s 
Being interested more particularly in the Scolopendrium, I at once 
communicated with Mr. Cheathem, my correspondent, to send me | 
good specimens, and as much information about the locality as he — 
could give me. poe 
A few days ago I received the following graphic description from 
my correspondent : @ 
“Some two miles west of the Tennessee River, and about the © 
same south-west from our new city of South Pittsburg, one quarter | 
of a mile beyond the last flat or level at head of cove, as you start 
up the mountain, in the bed of the water course, and perhaps half up 
the mountain, sixty feet from the branch, and as much above its level, _ 
there is a fissure in the lime-stone strata, some sixty feet long and forty 
