SCHIZAEA PUSILLA AT Toms RIVER Le 
further, walking over Pyxie and Bearberry past Kalmia 
angustifolia, Beach Plum and Huckleberry bushes, 
from which we took toll, down to the pond. It was 
very wet there, but a number of people tried their luck. 
At last the long searched for was found—three plants. 
of the Curly Grass. Mrs. Keeler took first honors by 
finding two and Dr. Levine the third. In the meantime 
to those of us who did not want to wade, Mrs. Martin 
said, ‘“‘though I have often looked for the fern and never 
found it, I know a place with a greater diversity of 
flowers; and Rev. Dr. Lighthipe said, “and I know a 
bank whereon Schizaea used to dwell.’ So leaving 
word for any one to come who cared to, Miss Jud and 
I followed our leaders, past the Pennsylvania Railroad 
station, past the mill where pencils and taleum powder 
are made, seeing en route the beautiful orange polygala 
and its relative P. cruciata, Lobelia cardinalis and the 
dainty Lobelia N uttallii, Aster nemoralis, Solidago odora 
and S. puberula, Rhexia, the Chain fern Woodwardia 
angustifolia, Gerardia purpurea, Bartonia tenella, and 
many other good things. The place was bordered with 
cedar trees. There had been more, but a fire along 
shore had ‘necessitated the cutting away of many of 
them. We were this side of a cranberry bog, separated 
from it by a little ditch. Our position was now on hands 
and knees, and the hunt began. Illustrations of the 
Fern were familiar to me and I had long owned a frond, 
but in spite of this, did not know just what to look for, 
until Miss Jud announced the first find. Gradually the 
eye grew accustomed to the tiny green curls, an inch and 
a half high and about the third of a grass blade in 
width, which were the sterile fronds, and the tiny 
brown pinnae in crowded pairs on the top of a longer, 
straighter frond which was fertile. Miss Jud found a 
second one, Mrs. Martin and I each found two plants, 
which we shared with Dr. Lighthipe, who had none. 
