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arrival at the bridge, with its cool, coffee-colored, cedar 
swamp water, like reaching an oasis in the Sahara. 
One feels as if gallons would be insufficient to slake 
one’s thirst; and it is no hardship, after such a walk, 
to go floundering around in the sphagnum and water 
up to your knees in search of the smallest fern that 
grows, around the bases of the swamp cedars. The Egg 
Harbor station is like going into a parlor along side of 
the effort necessary to be successful at Quaker Bridge. 
It was while trying to get a little relief from the hordes 
of mosquitoes that pestered us, that we found it was 
delightfully cool ten yards in among the cedars and, 
from some unexplained cause, the mosquitoes were 
almost entirely absent. There I found that rarity, 
Habenaria integra, a single plant growing and blooming 
in the dense shade. 
I will conclude by mentioning a single plant of Pel- 
laea atropurpurea growing in a crevice of a cliff at Dark 
Hollow along the Neshaminy Creek, which remained 
for close to twenty years alone, as I never found any 
more anywhere in the vicinity. 
PHILADELPHIA, Pa. 
Notes and news 
A Review: THe FERNS or ALLEGHENY County, 
PENNSYLVANIA. * By L. 8. Horxrys. 
In his ‘Ferns of Allegheny County,’ Mr. Hopkins 
has issued a very interesting and attractively illustrated 
little manual. It comprises a total of 130 pages of 
which about half are half-tone plates. Some of these 
plates are from herbarium specimens, some from live 
Plants in their natural state. Nearly all of these pic- 
*Publication IIT, Botanical Society of Western Pennsylvania. Issued 
it, 1914. 
