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and three feet long. There are quantities also of Herb 

 Robert. The oak-leaved plant is a composite whose 

 name I do not remember. Below the hart's tongue, 

 in the cedar thickets were occassional sods of thick 

 moss covered with numerous fine plants of Camptosorus. 

 Not very many other species of ferns grew in the im- 

 mediate neighborhood of the hart's tongue, but below 

 in the valley there was a very good assortment. My 

 story would not be complete here unless I tell how many 

 kinds I have found in how restricted an area. I think 

 I could now after a sufficient number of swings, drive 

 a couple of golf balls so that the triangle between their 

 starting and stopping places would enclose twenty-five 

 kinds. * 



The station I first found has since disappeared from 

 causes I do not know. Perhaps trees fell so as to leave 

 the slope too open and exposed to the sun. Perhaps 

 others found it, and collected too many plants. I 

 collected one plant for my fern garden when I first 

 found the place, but afterward swore off taking plants 

 as too liable to lead to the extinction of the stations, 

 and I would not now take any one to see the fern grow- 

 ing except with the understanding that only leaves would 

 be collected. With such an understanding I should 

 like to be one of a group of the members of the Society 

 to make a trip to the Jamesville region some summer. 

 Brooklyn, N.Y. 



A peculiar form of Pellaea atropurpurea Link. 



F. L. Pickett. 



On a limestone ledge, known locally as Cedar Cliff, 

 about three miles northwest of Harrodsburg, Monroe 

 County, Indiana, the Cliff Brake, Pellaea atropurpurea 

 Link., is found growing luxuriantly and abundantly. 



*One ought to drive a golf ball at least two hundred yards. 



