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Aspletiium Bradleyi, D. C. Eaton, in New York State.— T\\& only 
station heretofore recorded (Ferns of North America, Vol. i., p. 40) 
for this rare fern in New York State is that of the hill at New- 
burgh, where Prof. Eaton found it in 1864. This station, there is 
every reason to believe, has since been destroyed. Mr. Peck, in a 
letter from which I am permitted to quote, says that he searched 
over and around the hill for nearly a whole day without finding any 
of this fern. The upper part of the hill, he adds, " had recently 
been cleared, and I suspect the station there is destroyed." New 
York botanists will therefore be pleased to learn that a new station 
has been discovered in the Shawangunk Mts. by Clarence Lown, of 
Poughkeepsie, who visited the mountains on the 21st of September, 
1882, for the purpose of obtaining some A. montanum, and unex- 
pectedly came upon A. Bradleyi growing near by. 
_ Mr. Lown, who has already partially explored these mountains 
with good results, writes that he now has " stronger hopes than ever 
of finding Aspknium pinfiaiifidtiiii in this mountain range. " The 
consummation of these hopes may reasonably be expected. 
Mr. Lown reports. A. Bradleyi as apparently very scarce, and 
this appears to be the case in all of its other known localities, a fact 
which should be taken into serious consideration by all botanists 
■who may at any time be fortunate enough to find it, and for which 
reason its exact locality is not more definitely given here. 
Abnormal Asplenium montanum, — Mr. Lown sends some very 
curiously forked fronds of this species, also collected in .the Sha- 
wangunk Mts., where, he states, forked fronds are not uncommon. 
I have noticed the same disposition to fork in specimens from other 
localities, and this little fern really seems to take delight in such 
freaks. 
_ In most of Mr. Lown's specimens, the stipes forks near the base 
into two distmct stalks, each bearing a perfect lamina. In one in- 
stance, one of these double laminae again becomes forked just above 
the first pair of pinnae, dividing into two and giving to the whole 
the appearance of being three-fronded. In the commonly accepted 
mode of designation, this three- branched frond might be considered 
as three /ronds with their stalks united at the base, but morpho- 
logically It can only be regarded as one. In other instances the 
forking occurs near the top, the main rachis forking and thus form- 
mg a bifid apex. This last manner of forking is frequently met 
with m nearly all ferns, and is especially characteristic of Dicksonia 
pilosiuscula, in which species it is often carried to such an extent 
that every pinna on the frond becomes bifid at the apex 
Abnormal Osmunda re-alis.—Mx^. C. N. S. Horner, of George- 
town, Mass., has given me .some interesting specimens of this 
species m which the fertile and sterile portions are strangely mixed 
up, the fertile panicle proper being partly sterile (in one specimen 
being crowned with a sterile apex) and the upper part of the sterile 
portion proper being fruited in a variety of ways. Some of the 
upper pinnules are crenately incised, others are fertile on one side 
and some, strongly aiiricled at the base, are sterile for f or 1 an inch 
and are then abruptly contracted into a narrow, double row of cap' 
