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Plants from Virginia new to Gray’s Manual Range, with Notes on 
other Species. 
By A. A. HELLER. 
Virginia, since its southern boundary is also the southern 
boundary of our Northern flora, is a state of peculiar interest to 
the botanist; but notwithstanding this fact very little work has 
been done in the way of systematic exploration until the last year 
or two, and the result has been surprising, considering the limited 
area that has been covered. 
My own work during the past summer (1893) was confined 
principally to its southeastern corner, in the region of Franklin, 
Southampton county, a town of about 1,500 inhabitants, situated 
at the head of tidewater on the Blackwater River, and thirty-seven 
miles west of Norfolk. Several trips were made to the vicinity of 
Virginia Beach, a resort on the coast, eighteen miles east of Nor- 
folk, anda few to points near Franklin. A few days in May and 
August were spent in the western part of the State, in Rocking- 
ham and Augusta counties. 
All that portion of the State lying east of the Blue Ridge as 
far as the Peaks of Otter, and from there north and west, with the 
exception of the southeastern corner—and that still needs consid- 
erable attention—is practically unexamined. 
The following results of a rather hurried summer’s work, will 
show what awaits more thorough scrutiny : ; 
-ASPLENIUM EBENOIDES R. R. Scott, Journ. Roy. Hort. Soc. 87 
(1866). : : 
Collected near Mt. Crawford, Rockingham county, on lime- 
stone rocks, at an élevation of 1,400 feet. Asplenium parvulum 
and Camptosorus rhizophyllus are both plentiful and growing in 
company. My first impression was that if our plant is a hybrid, _ 
a new combination had been discovered. But close scrutiny re- 
vealed a withered frond of A. platyneuron just above, and almost - 
touching the 4. cbenoides. Thus another station and ‘state is 
“added to the known geographical distribution of this rare fern. 
