Proceedings of the Club 



331 



Mr. Wm. A. Lorenz, of Hartford, Conn., was introduced by 

 Dr. Rusby as one who had collected 34 species of ferns about 

 Willoughby Lake, Vermont. Mr. Lorenz described the lake and 

 neighboring; cliffs with the illustration of lantern slides, and spoke 

 of the hundreds of plants of Woodsia glabella flourishing there 

 close together, fruiting at i inch or at 6 inches. In the sunshine 

 it becomes more leathery as if passing into Wi hypcrborca. 



Dry opt 



spimdo. 



Mr, 



ddatata reverting there to 



the type of the species. 



Dry opt: 



lata, collected by him at Babylon, L. I., last summer, and pointed 



D. Thdypt 



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it fruits chiefly in the shade, and D. Tliclyptcris in the sun. 



Dr. Rusby spoke of the beauty of the ferns on the mountain 

 slopes near Plainfield, N. J., and at localities near there for Asph- 

 nium cbcnoidcs, Cystoptcris fragdis, and Chdlandics lanosa. 



Mr. Clute remarked that he had collected 16 species of ferns 

 within a mile of Fort Lee, and 59 species are now growing at the 

 Botanical Garden. 



Adjournment followed. 



Edward S. Burgess, 



Secretary. 



