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condition.! She did write such an article, but it was 
mislaid in the printing office and never published; so 
the destruction is probably still going on unheeded. 
The locality here described, on account of the limited 
amount of rock above water-level, may be spared until 
the deposit a little farther north is exhausted; but it 
seems to be threatened with the same fate that overtook 
one of the hart’s-tongue fern localities near Syracuse, 
N. Y.,2 and the only Mississippi station for. Tricho- 
-manes Petersii.s Any fern student who visits Florida 
in the near future, therefore, should make it a point to 
see the Pineola grottoes before it is too late, but bearing 
in mind the various perils above mentioned. There are 
no hotel accommodations near, but the place can easily 
be explored between the morning and afternoon trains 
in either direction. Possibly other equally interesting 
spots could be discovered near by, too. 
CoLtLEeGE Pornt, N. Y. 
An Adirondack Fern List 
Ri-Cs BENEDICT 
The section of the Adirondacks with which I am 
familiar is notable for the large number of fern plants 
but the very small number of fern species. The Syra- 
cuse field meeting of the Society in July, 1915, resulted in 
the collection of forty different ferns, excluding lycopods, 
equisets, and varieties. With two OF three days 
further exploration it would have been possible to find 
within the confines of Onondaga County nearly if not 
1 See Small, Jour. N. Y. Bot. Gard. 17: 41. March, 1916. 
2 See Maxon, Fernwort Papers 31. 1900. 
3See Underwood, Torreya 3: 18. Fe): 1903; Fern Bull. 13: 6. oa 
Nothing is said there about the destruction of the locality, but Prof. 
Tracy told. me in 1905 that the rock (presumably Altamaha Grit) had 
- been blasted away for railrcad ballast. 
