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feet wide, at its widest part, where the hill-side spring branch comes 
roaring and plunging into it. This fissure, like hundreds of others to be 
found all around the mountain points and coves in the rotten mountain 
lime-stone, seems to have been made or constantly enlarged by the 
action of the waters, which pass through them into the net-work of 
caves found more or less everywhere in this lime-stone, and_ make 
their reappearance somewhere in the valleys as Blue Spring. 
This spring branch, after foaming and seething along the twenty 
yards of varying cascades, takes its final leap of some forty feet 
perpendicular, breaking into a beautiful veil of froth and spray. _ 
Excited and attracted by the tremendous roar of the falling 
waters, I ventured up to the brink. I was enraptured by the wild 
grandeur and natural beauty of the spot. I cannot describe it, but 
after enjoying the scene for a time, I noticed on a ledge some ten 
feet below me a strange dock leaf. Though no botanist, I knew the 
léaf wasnew tome. After a while I said, “ Perhaps a fern ;’—but how 
was Ito get a specimen? My only chance was a long pole and a 
successful twist. I succeeded, and lo! the long brown diverging 
stripes on the under surface of the leaves told the tale and rejoiced 
my heart with the fact of another new fern—new to me. Ina 
few days I came again, provided with a rope, by which I descended 
and returned with an armful of plants. 
_ The following summer I returned to get more specimens of my 
Deer- Tongue, so 1 took two men, had two trees cut down, making a 
_ ladder by which I reached the bottom >of the sink, and secured my 
prizes.” 
Mr. Cheathem is an enthusiastic collector and a close observer. 
I have no doubt but what we shall hear from him again. I have 
asked him to send me good specimens of all the ferns he finds in 
this locality. | 
Prof. Eaton writes me on being informed of this new locality for 
this fern: “The Scolopendrium locality is entirely new and unex- 
pected. Canada, Central New York and parts of Mexico are the 
only regions hitherto known in America for this plant. 
JoHN WILLIAMSON, 
LoulsviLLe, Ky. 
Errata.——Page 338, line 26: For Abies alba, read Abies nigra. The former 
fame cameinbyaslipin copying. The cones of this spruce on Roan Mountain, 
it may here be remarked, are narrow for A. nigra, and thescales firmer-edged : 
_ but the tree is undoubtedly A. nigra. The white spruce is not known so far 
ahead several hundred miles. Line 12: read sessilifolia. Last line : for XX. 
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