FERN GROTTOES OF FLORIDA 69 
at the time, and he drove through the country from 
Gainesville, about 75 miles away. The ferns he dis- 
tributed from there (using the names printed on his 
labels) were Asplenium firmum (No. 3723*), A. myrio- 
phyllum (No. 3728), and Aspidium trifoliatum (No. 
3752*), the last being new to the known flora of the 
United States. (These asterisks are not footnote 
references, but part of Mr. Curtiss’s system of number- 
~ing.) They are labeled “Limestone rocks in a forest 
at the head of Lake Tsala Apopka, Western Florida. 
April.” As he was then making 125 sets of specimens, 
they are doubtless to be seen in all the principal her- 
baria of the world. In the Bulletin of the Torrey Botan- 
ical Club (8: 99-100) for September, 1881, D. C. Eaton 
reported the finding by Curtiss of Aspidium trifoliatum 
“on a rocky hummock! in Hernando County [Florida] 
in the middle of April last.” In the supplement of the 
second edition of Chapman’s Flora of the Southern 
United States, 1883, page 671, the same discovery is 
recorded. 
On March 22, 1883, Capt. John Donnell Smith visited 
the same place or one very near it, and got a few species 
of ferns that Curtiss overlooked or at least did not 
collect. His finding of Phegopteris reptans, Adiantum 
tenerum, Asplenium firmum, A. rhizophyllum, and 
Aspidium trifoliatum “on the face of cavernous cal- 
ecareous rocks in a hammock on the left bank of the 
Withlacoochee River, 15 miles from Brookesville, 
Hernando Co., Florida,” was reported by Prof. Eaton 
in the Torrey Bulletin for September, 1883. 
In 1887 Citrus County was formed from the northern 
part of Hernando, and about the same time a railroad 
was built to Brooksville, crossing the Withlacoochee 
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confined with antrn§ Pah ea stores aes ph iyegts re 1h 
29, 1905. The locality w 
ury. See Science II. 22: 400-402. Sept. 
oe in Hernando County, and Citrus County did not exist. 
