14 AMERICAN FERN JOURNAL 
ASPLENIUM EBENOIDES R. R. Scott 
A very fine plant was found July 1905 by Hattie T. 
Burnham back of schoolhouse No. 8, northwest Hart- 
ford, on limestone, in company with Aspleniwm platy- 
neuron and Camptosorus. This plant was transplanted 
to a flower pot and the following year, divided. The 
portion which Miss Burnham kept lived for several 
years. The other portion, for several years, grew 
luxuriantly as a house plant. Late in 1908, I make note, 
that the general appearance of the plant is more like 
Asplenium, except the tapering rooting fronds which 
are like Camptosorus. At that time 10 of the 11 fronds 
of the original plant were fruiting finely. Seven of the 
fronds were over 12 inches long: and 3 or 4 fronds, 20 
inches long and 41% inches wide. The tip of 5 of the 
fronds forked, the forks being linear and from 2-4 
inches long, making the extreme length of the frond, 2 
feet. In several instances pinnae formed proliferous 
plants, which rooted when they became attached to 
the soil and produced fronds, which also fruited. Un- 
fortunately this plant died during the summer of 1914 
ASPLENIUM PLATYNEURON (L.) Oakes 
Rocky woods and cliffs; frequent. July—Sept. 
This fern is usually met with in partial shade, growing 
among loose rocks. The sterile and fertile fronds 
usually become prostrate late in the fall and are almost 
evergreen. 
A form, the var. incisum (Howe) Robinson, is found 
on the limestone rocks one-third of a mile east of school- 
house No. 8, northwest Hartford. N. Y. State Mus. 
Bull. 105: 30-31. 1906. This variety is described as 
having the pinnae “about one inch long, and all except 
the extreme upper and lower ones deeply incised-pinna- 
tifid; the pinnules are rather strongly 3-5 crenate 
toothed.” N. Y. State Cab. Rep’t 22: 104. 1869. ; 
