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riparia, Nephrodivm crista turn X Goldieanum and 

 Asplenium ebenoides. 



The work of selecting from the checklist of its fern 

 flora the plant most suitable to typify the floral char- 

 acteristics of the State and foster in the minds of its 

 school children a state pride and patriotism as suggested 

 by House Bill 888 was the question before the meeting. 

 (All this in soliloquy.) What fern then should be chosen? 

 Not Asplenium pinatifidum — not Isoetes riparia — not 

 Asplenium ebenoides— not Nephrodium cristatum x 

 Q old i 'a m urn— not any one of these but all of them, 

 together with the rich and varied fern flora of American 

 Ferns. "The Fern" simply should be chosen as the 

 emblem. Pennsylvania, Penn's woods, Pennsylvania! 



with its 



. . 



Hocks and rills; its woods and templed hills" 



nominates, appropriate and proclaims as its official 



floral emblem "The Fern." 



The day was half gone and no other member appear- 

 ing, the sole representative of the Society was graciously 

 put aboard a returning train by Dr. M. S. Ayres, the 

 village host, and the 1914 field meeting had passed into 

 historv. The following belated members were found 

 next day at the "Shore Day" outing of The Torrey 

 Club: Dr. and Mrs. X. L. Britton, Miss Pauline Kauf- 

 man, Prof. R. A. Harper, Dr. Marshall A. Howe, Dr. 

 Ralph C. Benedict, Norman Taylor, and themember 

 from Pennsvlvania. 



CI .ORMANTOWX, Pa. JAMES GRIMSHAW SCOTT. 



July 18, 1914. 



