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look to find Pellaea atropurpurea and Asplenium ruta- 

 nniraria, but the writer searched every promising cliff in 

 vain. Equisetum variegatum has been collected in Wil- 

 liamstown, and Selaginella rupestris in Sheffield, but as 

 far as the writer's observation shows they seem to stick 

 to those two corner towns of the state. 



AUBURNDALE, MASS. 



Asplenium angustifolium in Louisiana 



FRANCIS W\ PENNELL 



While collecting last August in West Feliciana Parish, 

 Louisiana, I was much impressed with the number of 

 distinctly northern plants occurring there. Most of 

 these have already been noticed by Dr. R. S. Cocks of 

 Tulane University, New Orleans, to whom this aspect of 

 the flora is quite familiar. But one species of fern which 

 I collected there he assures me is a new record for the 

 state, and as it seems such a remarkable one, I wish to 

 report it here.* 



West Feliciana Parish is situated along the east bank 

 of the Mississippi River just south of the Mississippi 

 state line. Its topography is much broken, consisting of 

 low hills reaching two or three hundred feet above sea 

 level There is much woodland, largely of oaks and 

 deciduous trees of northern species, in low ground largely 

 of Magnolia grandifiora L. Ravines — quite dry while I 

 was there — abound, on the steep banks of which ferns 

 grow in profusion. It was along one of these that I came 

 upon a considerable colony of Asplenium angustifoliuin 

 Michx., growing in company with Asplenium filix-foemina 

 (L.) and Dryopteris patens (Sew). The exact locality to 

 be cited is: near Alexander Creek, on land adjoining th* 

 plantation of Mr. Edward Butler, Catalpa, La., 5 miles 



* Since writing the above I have been informed by Dr. Cocks that 

 Dr. Carpenter recorded this plant from the same Parish. Still, the 

 record is a noteworthy one. — F. W. P. 



