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day, details being given for the trip of the Torrey Club to 

 Staten Island the day following. 



The train for West Englewood was ready, however, 

 and the Pennsylvania member proceeded to that point 

 and opened the meeting a la solitaire. The roll call was 

 then taken up, beginning with the Empire State with 

 its fifty-six members, and no answers being heard Massa- 

 chusetts providing the treasurer of the Society was 

 polled without response. Then Pennsylvania with its 

 twenty members, third in point of numbers, was called, 

 responding with one resonent "present" that made the 

 welkin ring, or words to that effect. Of course, the pro- 

 ceedings were held entirely in "Soliloquy," the only 

 audible disturbance, the sighing of the humid, ambient 

 air through the antler like foliage of the "Bull Moose 

 hybrid" Onoclea sensibilis protruding from the neigh- 

 boring thicket. 



Roll call finished and a quorum "counted," new 

 business was taken up and discussion opened (a la Sel- 

 kirk, of course) as to the selection of a suitable fern floral 

 emblem for the great Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, 

 an idea suggested by the Germantown Independent 

 Gazette. All fern students present agreed that Penn- 

 sylvania, the Keystone State of the arch of the Repub- 

 lic, with its one hundred named species and varieties of 

 ferns should have for its official and eternal floral emblem 

 some member of its interesting fern flora. 



W. A. Poyser, in his fern flora of Pennsylvania, says 

 "From the standpoint of the fern student the flora is a 

 most interesting one. The geographical position of the 

 State is such that quite a number of northern species 

 find their southern limit within its borders while some 

 southern forms just pass north of its limits giving it a 

 goodly admixture." 



Within the boundaries too of the Keystone State are 

 the type stations of Asplenium pinnatifidum, ' Isoetes 



