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one instance of apogamy in the genus Osmunda had 
previously been recorded and all former attempts to 
induce it or to detect it under natural conditions had 
failed. 
Louise H. Coburn reports (in Rhodora 22: 156, Sept., 
1920) the apparently spontaneous occurrence of Mar- 
silea quadrifolia j in a pond, artificial, but fed by natural 
s in a park at Skowhegan, Maine. This is the 
second eae for that state. 
LyGoprum japonicum IN SoutH Caroiina.—My 
attention was called to this interesting climbing fern 
in 1913, when I saw a pot of it in a friend’s garden in 
Summerville, South Carolina, and was told that it had 
been found in a near-by thicket. 
While in Summerville in March, 1920, I found this 
fern growing on the side of a ditch, in one of the main 
streets of the town. The fronds, which were then quite 
dry and brown, were several feet long, and had twined 
around a small shrub. There were several small ferns, 
of the same kind, growing near, two of which I brought 
home and potted and for a year they have been growing 
vigorously, developing new fronds and sending up vines 
one of which is several feet in length. 
Mr. C. A. Weatherby states that the Lygodium japon- 
tcum was reported as naturalized about Thomasville, 
ce as long ago as 1905. 
Mr. E. W. Graves, i in a recent Fern Bulletin, mentions 
it as growing in Mobile along a creek and in gardens. 
Miss Lewis, of Summerville, has two of these ferns grow- 
ing in her garden and said that she had been gathering 
them for a number of years in the deep ditches which 
drain the town. Miss Laura Bragg, Director of the 
Charleston, S. C., Museum, writing from there says, 
“IT am sending you a specimen of the cultivated Ly- 
godium which has escaped in this vicinity. It was 
