42 AMERICAN FERN JOURNAL 
Bulletin, April, 1904, mentions Ophioglossum pusillum 
utt. “This I onee found growing abundantly just 
west of Jacksonville in a damp sandy spot with Lud- 
wigia palustris, etc. It has also been found much 
further south.” 
“Cheilanthes microphylla Sw. 
Found by me about twenty-five years ago, on a 
shaded shell mound near the mouth of the St. John’s 
River. It seems since to have entirely disappeared.”’ 
Curtiss reports Botrychium obliquum Muhl., Asplen- 
tum ebeneum L., Polystichum acrostichoides Schott, as 
found only in northwestern Florida, so I have had the 
pleasure of adding a new station. 
JACKSONVILLE, FLA. 
Fern Hunting in Florida in the Phosphate Country 
M. A. NOBLE 
_ About seven miles southwest of Inverness, the county 
seat of Citrus County, following the winding roads of 
the turpentine orchards and phosphate mines, one 
comes to a circular basin, whose gently sloping sides are 
broken by three or four groups of rocks, bearing a scanty 
growth of ferns, mostly Asplenium platyneuron and 
Dryopteris patens. In the center of the basin is a moist 
pot, with a few clumps of Woodwardia Virginica. 
But one of the rocks, the last to be found, is quite 
different. Almost hidden in the sloping bank appears 
a small cave, the earth above it bearing a luxuriant 
vine, whose leafy stems strung with snowy berries hang 
like a curtain over the entrance. A few irregular rocks 
form a rude stairway down to the mouth of the cave. 
Among these grow Dryopteris patens, Asplenium platy- 
neuron, and A. parvulum. Overhead is a low arch of 
rock, completely covered with the moss-like fronds of 
