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Minnesota it is restricted to the southwestern portion of the State 

 and is not found on upland or roUing prairie, so far as yet deter- 

 mined. This plant has never before been reported east of the 

 Missouri River. CoNWAY McMlLLAN. 



Note on Asploiiuvi piiuiatifidiun,. Considering the few re- 

 corded locaHties io'C Asplcnium piiutatifiduniy I think the follow- 

 ing notes may prove of interest : 



In June, 1886, Messrs. A. P. Brown, Stewardson Brown, and 

 myself found this species growhig sparingly on rocks in a deep 

 glen on the west side of the Susquehanna River at York Furnace, 

 York Co., Penn. We found it in the same locality in 1889 and 

 again hi June of the present year. On the last occasion, being 

 convinced that the fern ought to be found in other similar locali- 

 ties along the riv^er, we made a careful search for it and were re- 

 warded by findhig it in several other places m the woods border- 

 ing the river below York Furnace. In all cases it was growing 

 on perpendicular rocks of an eastern exposure. No doubt fur- 

 ther search will discover it at various other points along the river. 



Another locality from which I have seen specimens oi pmnati- 

 fidiivi is on a tributary of the Brandywine Creek near Mortonville, 

 Chester Co., Penn. These specimens were collected by Miss 

 Mary Steele a number of years ago, and I doubt if the plant is 

 still to be found in this locality, as I have visited the place a num- 

 ber of times and have never been able to find it. 



WiTMER Stone. 



Germantown, Pa.. 



Notes on two Carices. — Carex dejlexa, Hornem., var. Deaiiei^ 

 Bailey. While collecting on the embankment of the old ''Veazie 

 Railroad *' at Old Town, on May 24th, I found a small clump of 

 this species — the only one I found that day. A few days later I 

 found it growing in dry open woods at Oroho, and have since 

 found it quite abundant in a number of similar localities. The 

 only station in Maine, recorded in the Manual, is Mt. Desert, 

 45 miles to the south. 



Carex ehordorhiza^ Ehrh., is quite abundant in the '* Bangor 

 Bog," in Orono. Professor Bailey writes that he never heard of 

 it before in Maine. Merritt L. Fernald, 



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Orono, Me. 



