410 BOTANICAL GAZETTE [NOVEMBER 
It is, however, the northern and northwestern portion of the state 
that presents more of interest to the fern hunter as well as to the bot- 
anist interested in any branch of the subject. 
wo exceedingly interesting localities were visited during the 
months of May and June of the present year, and a considerable series 
of rare and interesting species were obtained, which have been distrib- 
uted to the leading herbaria. 
The first of these localities visited was Havana glen, which had 
been known as one of the stations of the rare Asplenium ebenoides, 
collected here many years ago by Miss Julia Tutwiler. Havana is a 
hamlet of a half dozen houses and shanties, in Hale county, and is 
reached by private conveyance either from Stewart’s or Akron on the 
Alabama Great Southern railway. The glen is a deep gorge cut in a 
conglomerate rock, well wooded and shaded. Here, in addition to 
the ferns mentioned above, we find Dryopteris marginalis, commonly 
reduced in size so that mature spore-bearing fronds six inches long 
aré not uncommon; also Adiantum pedatum, and on the rocks Asple- 
nium trichomanes and Camptosorus rhizophyllus,; here, too, we find 
Botrychium Virginianum of normal size. But the object of our search 
is here in considerable quantity, in fact the commonest fern of the 
glen, Asplenium ebenoides, originally discovered along the Wissahickon 
near Philadelphia, reported from a dozen stations ranging all the — 
from Canaan, Connecticut, to Hanover, Indiana, and southward, but, 
so far as I can discover, nowhere found in any quantity. Many have 
regarded it a hybrid, but the display of the species at Havana clearly 
demonstrates that it is not.a hybrid at all. Its nearest congene : 
Asplenium pinnatifidum, but the frond is much thinner and more itteg- 
ular than that species. In habit, however, it is very close to that sp 
cies, growing far under overhanging rocks; in this respect it is oe 
unlike both 4. platyneuron and Camptosorus rhizophyllus, its suppose 
parents. It appears to be multiplying, as many young plants wet 
seen in the rock crevices. This myth of hybridity may be put aside, 
for Asplenium ebenoides is as clearly defined a species as we Possess s 
the genus Asplenium, and has no near relations outside of its 0¥” 
genus. 
The other habitat for the rarer ferns of Alabama is the old col- ae 
lecting ground of Judge Peters, and the type locality of 7” ichomants 
Petersii, which will rank as the rarest as well as the most minute TEP” 
resentative of its order in the country. Winston county, Alabama, 
