G2 



J 



unt- 



florum^ T. & G. This communication gave rise to considerable dis- 



Epiphegus, 



Monotrop^ 



Mr. Brown stated that he had recently detected a foreign species 

 ■of Orohanche on the ballast heaps at Hunter's Point, which was 

 growing at some distance from any other plants and did not appear 

 to be parasitic, but that the matter needed further and closer inves- 

 tigation than he had given it. After a lengthy discussion of Mono- 

 tropa unifloni, L., which was taken part in by Dr. Newberry, and 

 Messrs Wright, Britton, Leggettand others, Mr. Braman promised to 

 study the plant's mode of life during the present season, and report 



Mr. Britton read a paper on the " Northward Extension of the 

 -- Jersey Pine Barrens Flora on Long and Staten Islands." 



Two napes were proposed for active membership. 

 On motion the Club adjourned to meet during the 



July 



may select. 



months of 

 ices as he 



I 



§ 45- New or Little-known Ferns of the United States. No. 8. 

 ^ 24. Aspidium conterminum. Willd., var. strigosum.— This is 



the name which seeins'proper to be borne by a fern discovered by 

 l^apt. J. Donnell Smith, last March, in a miry swamp which drains 

 into Peace Creek, Polk Co., Florida. The fern is related to A. 

 Noveboracense and more closely to A. Nevadense, and belongs to a 

 group of forms referred to ^. r^«/^^,«/;^,,;;, in Synopsis Filtcum, but 

 divided into several species by Fee, Fournier, and other writers. The 

 lorm found m Florida agrees perfectly with an authentic specimen of 

 ^Hhl^rT' ".°"^.^ted in Guadaloupe by L' Herminier, and de- 



des Ann^ '" I'" ^'^'^\? ^^' ^^"S^^^^ ^' ^^' Lycopodiacees 



des Antilles, p. 78. t. XXII, fig. 2. It is also identical with A 



exsudans, v^r.majus of Fournier (PI. Mex., Crypt, p. 93), as shown 



by a comparison of authentic specimens. From the more strictly 



S f '^■/^'''""T'" '^ "^^^^"^ ^>' ^^'^ ^^^^'■ter stalk, and the more 



[.?r^?c Tk', ^ ''"".^r '^^'^^^^ ^^ ''^'"-^ is copiously dotted with res- 



th^L^ f.l'^"'^^^ '^''.P'^'"^"? °^ ^^"^te mamillate glands on 

 the sides of the rachis at the insertion of each pinna The charac 



rrad:Tus-'°'R'%^PT';" ^' ^'^ " Ferns ^N^rthlmerlcr'' 

 reads thus : Root-stock stout, erect, often rising above ground 



bearing a crown of fronds; fronds i to 4 feet Ion- puberulent and 

 glandular beneath, very short-stalked, latceolate, cluda^acum^ 

 much narrowed at the base, somewhat rigid, pinnate pinnae^essHe' 

 narrowly lanceolate from a broader base, acum^inatrd^eZpTnnatl^fiS 

 into oblong obliquely sub-falcate obtuse segments veins fee sm 

 pie ; son near the margin ; indusium reniform, minute elandukr 

 and somewhat pilose, evanescent " ""nuie, glandular 



of tt'^rtipe'^iTaCel- T '"""' ^>' ^^P*" S™^^^' ^^ '^at the base 



siderbfa pVomision^^ is narrowly wing-margined on both 



chymatLsTea h Thi. ■ ' P^'-^'r^hyma through the outer scleren- 



ymatous sheath. T his is seen best by cutting a thin cross-section 



