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3.oS5),^ where the species was originally described by Hooker under 

 Gilhes's manuscript name, from plants cultivated from spores, may, 

 It seems to me, be fairly taken to represent our plant, only in a larger 

 form, otherwise the characters are the same. Lowe's figure (Vol. i., 

 pi. XV. ) also appears to have been taken from cultivated plants, 

 from which due allowances are to be made for plants in a state of 

 nature. Kunze's figures I have not seen. 



Lygodium palmatian in New Hcnnpshire.—Mx. Wm. H. Bates, of 

 St. Paul "s^ School, Concord, N. H., wrote me in April last that he had 

 found a smgle frond of last year's growth of this species growing in 

 a low meadow half a mile from the school. The frond measured 

 about seven mches m length, and had seven pairs of sterile pinnae. 

 Mr. Bates states that Prof. Hitchcock, in his Geologv of New Hamp- 

 shire, credits Lygodium to Hudson. N. H., but I have no knowledge 

 of Its presence m that State authenticated by actual specimens. 



It IS to be hoped that Mr. Bates will be fortunate enough to find 

 later a sufficient number of specimens to establish its presence there 

 beyond a doubt. 



Asplenium Filix-foemina, Bernh.— Mr. Bates has sent me a small 

 doubly-crested frond of this species, taken from a plant found by him 

 last summer in a rocky meadow near the school, and answering very 



This form is 



sometimes met with in cultivation, but there is no good reason why 

 such forms should not occur here occasionally in a state of nature as 

 well as in England where they are not uncommon, and Mr. Bates has 

 not been able to find any evidence of his plant having escaped from 

 cultivation. ' o i- 



Botrychium simplex, Hitchcock.— Mrs. M. J. Myers sends 

 T?f ^ S ^i^"^^^ specimens of this species which were collected near 

 Ithaca N. Y., by Prof. W. R. Dudley. Two of the specimens ap- 

 proach the ternate form, and two have the stipes unusually developed 



so that the lamina appears as if placed above the middle, as in Milde's 

 var. fallax. , u<. o 



From Miss Furbish, I have just received specimens of B. simplex 

 collected by her m Rangeley, Maine, making still another station for 

 this species. 



Abnormal^ Growths iji Botrychia.— Mrs. Myers has also sent me 

 for examination a weakly developed specimen of B. Lunaria, which 

 has two fertile branches, the second, and extra branch springing 

 from the stipes just below the first, and a portion of the sterile seg- 

 ments bearing from one to four sporangia. The specimen with a 



Sr; '"'' "" '^'^^^^^ ^^ ^'^^'° S^--P' -- SyrTcTstby Prof 



colwTedbfMf;^'^K'i^°"'M ".^"'■^"^P^"'™^" «f ^- ^<^nceolaium, 



Lr Ue mn^cle Thr^''^ •' ^''^- '^'f 'T'"^ ^^^'"^^ transformed into a 

 ertUe panicle 1 he specimen is further interesting in showing the 



wo portions of the bud standing nearly upright, and with onTy a^ery 



ha^e r" HnTdlTte ;"':f ' ''" '"^'^"^' ^^'P "^ ^-^ ^'-^^ ^'-7 -ou d 

 nave recJmcd later in the season. ^ 



Osmunda Clayioniana, L. — Mr F W Mom n HI v.^. n ^ a • 

 Mihi^n M-ieo /r.^ ' *. ' . ' ™*-*^^>^ai nas collected m 



Maiden, Mass., some interesting specimens of this species in which 



