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11. Camptosorus rkizophylhiis. Link. j 27. Botrychium VirninicuDK Swartz. 



12. Pher/opterix polypodivirJcn, Fee. ; 38. Lycnpodimn alo'peciiroideii, L. 



13. Phe(/op1eris< licxanonojjtirn. Fee. 1 29. Jyyropudvam (Unflnndeum, M. 



14. As'pidimv ThelypferiH, 8wartz. , 30. Lycopodium conipUututiini. \.. 

 lo. Aspidiuv) Nureboraixiise, Swartz. 31. Helnyinella rapeiitni<,'6\mn\!.. 

 16. Aspidium i'tdei-medium^WWld. 32. Selaginellu apu><, S\n'inir. 



The rocks are very abrupt and steep along the river near the "' Spriuiis " and it was 

 with great difficulty that some of the specimens were obtained. AHplnu'nm phiinitifdvm. 

 Nutt., was formerly quite abundant on the clitfs on the Schuylkill near Philadelphia, 

 but of late years very little has been seen there. The specimens from Rock Castle have 

 fronds very miich larger, some of them measuring eight inches in length, having a very 

 long and slender prolongation and fertile nearly to the tip. The TrichoraaneK nidicdnx, 

 Swartz? was collected only after a long and laborious .search far up among the rocks 

 where the dripping water kept it constantly wet. The specimens were very large and in 

 good condition. This is one of the rarities of that section, and I lielieve is about it.* 

 most northern range. 



Asplenivm Bradleyi, D. C. Eaton., a new species, had been said to grow in the 

 viciuit}', and Axplein'i'm ehenot'deK. R. R. Scott., the so called hyltrid fern, having Ijeen 

 collected a little farther south was also looked for, but Miss Rule did not succeed iu 

 finding either of them. 



Camptosorus rhrzophyllus. Link., was of very lu.xuriant growth, frequently two or 

 three, and on one occasion lam informed /rx/y generations were linked together. 



Isaac C. Martindai>k, C'amdm. \. ./. 



Miscellaneous Notes. — ;in regard to Dr. Douglas' note in the October Bollt.tia I 

 wish to say a word. Erechthites hieracifoUa, Raf., grew abundantly three years ago last 

 August at Whitewater, Wisconsin, and under such surroundings that I am not willing to 

 believe I noticed it on its first appearance in the place. Lubelio ayphlliUcn. L., is often 

 white in Wisconsin. T found a station on Skinner Creek, Gi-reen Co., Wis., from which 

 I gathered white specimens for several years and have not the least doubt but tluy can 

 be had there to-day. — Herbert E. Copeland. 



T find on looking oxer some specimens in my liebarium a peculiar form of Elc- 

 phantopm CaroUriianun, Willd. The peculiarity consists in the leaves being opposite in- 

 stead of alternate. Near the base of the specimen the leaves are in wliorls of three, but 

 when they advance further up the stem thej' are very clearly opposite. 1 examined the 

 specimen somewhat critically in order to see if other variations did not occur, but 

 could find none unless it was the absence of the characteristic " .wiii.fir/iut /idiry/"' I did 

 indeed find some hairs, yet hardly enough to be noticed in describing the plant. 



Among our cultivated plants we have very commonly EapJujrbia m,nrgiiiatii Puisli. 

 About two years ago it began to escape and now on the north bank of the Eel river it 

 covers a low blutl" for nearly a mile. I have not seen it recorded as having become 

 naturalized as far north as this before, nor did I see it, except as cultivated, \uitii in 

 1874. From my knowledge of its hardiness and rapidity of growth. I i)resunic wo 

 may certainly count it as a permanent resident. — M. S. C. 



A few weeks ago I found near J^oveland, Ohio, a peculiar form of Ragweed {Am- 

 bro:<i(i art n ids {iff olid). Uray, in the description of the genus says; "Sterile and fertile 

 flowers occupying different heads on the same plant: the fertile 1 — 3 together and ses- 

 sile in the axils of leaves or bracts, at theba.se of the racemes or spikes of sterile 

 heads.'' In the specimens I found there were no sterile flowers to be seen, and in- 

 stead of the fertile tlowers being in the axils of the leaves, tliey were arranged in up- 

 right spikes as the *<e?-i7^ usually are. There were some half dozen plants in a space 

 about 50 yards square in one locality, and in another place one and the largest speci- 

 men, less than three feet liigh. A year or so ago my brother found a specimen of the 

 same kind, but he does not know where. Is this a common thing to tind or not ': 



