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and the link between the flowerless and flowering vegetation. 

 And as I had associated, by some unknown process of my 

 mind, quite a peculiar situation and locale for the object of 

 my visit, judge my surprise to find every bush of a thicket of 

 Andromeda, Viburnum, Yaccinium, &c. &c., entwined with 

 the delicate stems of the actually living, growing and elegant 

 Climbing Fern ! 



Dr. Bigelow, in his Florida Bosioniensis, informs us that 

 this rare fern was cultivated " at the Botanic Garden, Cam- 

 bridge, brought from Granby, Massachusetts :" and in the 

 third edition of this useful manual we are also told that Mr. 

 Eddy detected it '•' on the Blackstone Canal." I freely con- 

 fess to the fact, however, that in my herborizations 1 never 

 had the good fortune to discover any native locality ; and can 

 recal the satisfaction I used to experience whenever I took 

 an opportunity of seeing that individual specimen under the 

 fostering care of my old friend Carter, as it grew in the gar- 

 den at Cambridge, where he held the situation of gardener 

 so well and so honorably for many a year. 



I find thirteen distinct species of Lygodium beside our New 

 England species, enumerated in Kunz's Index jilicutn. Sev- 

 eral of them seem to inhabit the tropics, some the Asiatic re- 

 gions, while Japan and China of the Old world find cospe- 

 cies of their forms in somewhat kindred temperatures of our 

 own verstitile New England climate. 



Nuttall assures us that our species under present consid- 

 eration is met with '• in thickets on the swampy margins of 

 small water courses from New Jersey to Carolina ; rare :" and 

 that it had been seen living "near Hyde's Town, New Jer- 

 sey, and near Alston, by Z. Collins, Esq.," according to his 

 Genem of North American Plants, published in 1818. 



Professor John Torrey, in the State Report on the Flora of 

 New York, remarks that the specimens to which he made 

 allusion, as being found in the State of New York, " were col- 

 lected in the most northern part of Pennsylvania near the New 

 York line," and that it grows " near the Raritan River below 

 New Brunswick in New Jersey." Appended to this Report, 

 among other plants figured, may be seen a fair copy of our 



