consider the tendency of botanical instruction for the past ten years, it is 

 not surprising that the younger generation of botanists do not know how 

 to collect, and when turned loose in some highly interesting botanical field 

 find, to the sorrow of those who want something of them, that their eyes 

 are trained only for an immersion lens and not at all for learning the rich- 

 ness of the flora about them. 



AVhile the season since our advent to the state has been exceedingly dry 

 and therefore unfavorable to the development of fungi, we have in three or 

 tour short excursions in the immediate vicinity of Greencastle, secured suf- 

 ficient material to show a rich cryptogamic flora. A few of the more inter- 

 esting discoveries will be noted and exhibited : 



1. On the sandstone rocks at Fern, a rare moss, Eustichia Norvegica, is 

 found in great abundance covering many square rods of the rock wall. 

 It was first reported by Sullivant in 184(3 from Lancaster, Ohio, and distri- 

 buted in his Musci AUeghanienses as no. 188. Rau has reported it from Penn- 

 sylvania and Mrs. Britton found it in fruit for the first time in the Dalles of 

 the Wisconsin in July, 1883. Its sterile states have been figured by Sul- 

 livant* and its fruit by Mrs. Brittont. This Indiana station makes the 

 fourth in the fourth state. 



2. On clay banks at Fern we have found a hepatic new to America, Fos- 

 sombronia cristata, Lindb.t In Europe it has frequently been confounded 

 with F. pusilla and is possibly the plant reported under that name by Sul- 

 livant in one of the earlier issues of Gray's Manual. Of the true pusilla 

 we have seen no American specimens in fruit, and Fos»ombronia is one of 

 the few genera of the Jungermaniaceie in which the exospore is sufficiently 

 difi^erentiated to furnish satisfactory specific characters. F. cristata is easily 

 recognized by the confluent crests of its spores. Its known range hitherto 

 includes Finland, Sweden, Germany, France and England. 



3. Trametes ambigua (Berk.) Fr. This is not an an uncommon species in 

 the vicinity of Greencastle and Fern. It was iirst described by Berkleyi< 

 from specimens collected by Lea in the vicinity of Cincinnati, and has 

 since been reported from Ohio by Morgan, from Kansas by Cragin, and 

 from Missouri by Demetrio, through whom it was distributed by Ellis in 

 N. A. Fungi under the original name Dxdalia ambigua (no. 1593.) 



4. Hjfdnum stratosum Berk, has been found once under a rotten log near 



-Mem, Amer. Acad. n. s. Ill, 1. 1 (1846.1 



tBull. Torrey Bot. Club. X, 99 (1883.) 



JNotiser pro Fauna et Flora Fennica, XIII, 388 (1874). 



^.Dxdalea ambigua Berk. Decades of Fungi, n. 83 (184(i). 



