Notes AND NEws 115 
I find Ophioglossum everywhere except in sphagnum. 
I found them in Salisbury, Conn., in an old cart-path on 
the mountains. Here they grow in every pasture, right 
out in the open, along with Antennaria and hawkweed. 
I have found them in clear sand along a railroad, and in 
dry, open ground at an elevation of over 1400 feet. I 
mention this last because I was told by a fern student 
that there was a tradition that Ophioglossum had never 
been found above 600 feet. I fancy that here they may 
be found in any place where there is clay soil or subsoil 
to hold the water. 
Mrs. Orra PARKER PHELPS. 
Canton, N. Y. 
Mr. R. A. Ware contributes the following list of 
habitats for Ophioglossum as recorded on the sheets in 
his herbarium: Georgeville, Quebec, cedar swamp; 
Pleasant Ridge, Somerset Co, Maine, ‘‘with Liparis 
Loeselii in slight depression in open, upland grass 
field’; Dover, Maine, meadows; Hinsdale, N. H., sphag- 
num swamp; Alton, N. H., wet meadow; Westmore, 
Vt., ‘upland, open grass field, with young plants of 
Onoclea sensibilis after mowing’; Harvard, Mass., in 
sphagnum; Plainville, Conn., moist rocky woods; Corn- 
wall, Conn., dry, wooded hillside; Mansfield, Conn., 
open bog; Lima, Delaware Co., Pa., swamp. Also 
specimens labeled O. arenarium from “Longport, N. J., 
gea beach.” 
Dors OpHIOGLOSSUM VULGATUM REQUIRE TEN YEARS 
FROM SPORE TO FIRST GREEN LEAF? 
In addition to the points mentioned in a recent number, 
Prof. Campbell has brought out in his monograph of the 
Eusporangiate many other very interesting points re- 
