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obtuse at the extremity. These specimens are as large as any 
that have been found, 
If you think it new suppose you publish it. AG: 
Dr. Robinson sent for comparison from the Gray Herbarium 
the remainder of this same collection. They agreed perfectly with 
Dr. Torrey’s in their immature condition and are labeled by Dr. 
(Gray. 
‘“ Depauperate O. vulgatum, Exeter, Otsego Co. Dr. Curtiss.” 
Inside the packet are two labels ; one reads in Dr. Gray’s handwrit- 
ing. 
Rp Ophioglossum. Can it be O. vulgatum? 1am informed it is 
constantly of this size.” 
The other reads “ It looks different, but still may be small var. 
of O. vulgatum. It would be desirable to see more specimens. 
In searching Dr. Gray’s letters I find in his autobiography an 
account of his early botanizing and collecting from 1828-1830, and 
that he speaks of showing plants that puzzled him to Dr. Hadley, 
and of beginning a correspondence with Lewis C. Beck, of Albany, 
and Dr. Torrey. While at Utica he spent one summer vacation 
collecting “ down the Unadilla to Pennsylvania.” The Unadilla is 
one of the northern tributaries of the Susquehanna, and forms the 
western boundary of Otsego County, where these ferns were col- 
lected by Dr. Curtiss. From the letters it would seem to have 
been about 1830. None of these specimens are more than 7 cm. 
high, the petioles 3-5 cm., the blades 2-3 cm. long by 5-10 mm. 
wide, lanceolate or oval, and the fertile spike is still so undeveloped 
that it is not more than half the length of the blade, and nearly 
sessile. Only two specimens at all like these have been seen from 
Europe, and they were found in Dr. Gray’s and Prof. Eaton’s 
herbaria, collected by Blytt at Christiania, Norway, and are la- 
belled O. vulgatum. Some of them resemble the young sterile 
fronds of O. arenarium, especially those which do not bear any 
fertile spikes, yet the probability is that they are immature O. vu/- 
£aium, as similar specimens have been collected in May and June 
by Stewart H. Burnham at Vaughns, N. Y., and Alvah A. Eaton 
at Seabrook, N. H. 
In the Herbarium of William H. Leggett, there were two sets 
Of specimens collected by Mrs. Lucy A. Millington and a letter 
» from her dated from Glens Falls, October 17, 1873, in which she 
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