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few plants of Asplenium Trichomanes. There was noth- 
ing astonishing about this; the air sometimes carries 
spores where you do not want them. In taking the 
plants out, I found one which did not look like the others. 
I took good care of the little plant and, as it grew up and 
became well-developed, it turned out to be a plant iden- 
tical with one which was found in England in a wild state 
in 1870 by a Mr. Stabler and is now in cultivation under 
the name Asplenium Trichomanes, var. confluens Moore 
or var. hybridum Lowe. It is a very distinct, robust 
growing and nice form. The fronds are much longer and 
larger than in the type and the leaflets grow together 
at the top (confluent). Lowe says it is probably a 
hybrid between Asplenium Trichomanes and A. marinum; 
Druery believes it a hybrid between Scolopendrium and 
Asplenium Trichomanes. 
Locust Vau.ey, L. I. 
Mr. Hans’s experience seems to be of exceptional 
interest. For, judging from Druery’s statement,’ the 
true nature of var. confluens has remained a matter of 
doubt in England and Mr. Hans’s observations go far 
to prove it a hybrid between the hart’s-tongue and the 
maiden-hair spleenwort, as Druery conjectured. It 
would thus add another to the rather rare cases of 
hybridization between plants usually considered to be- 
long to different genera, of which our own Asplenium 
ebenoides is a well-known example.—C. A. W. 
Ferns of Duval County, Florida 
MRS. M. W. SATCHWELL 
There are no rocks or hills in our county; it is bounded 
on the east by the Atlantic Ocean; the soil is sandy. 
Conditions are not such as ferns generally like, yet 
1 In British’ Ferns and their Varieties, p. 77 (1910). 
