128 AMERICAN FERN JOURNAL 
flowers had been collected. On that day and the follow- 
ing ones almost all the ferns attributed to that locality 
were found, and one new one. Many of them were of 
unusually luxuriant growth—for instance, plants of 
Aspidium spinulosum intermedium with fronds 36 inches 
long and 14 wide; A. marginale almost, if not quite, as 
large; giant Botrychium virginianum, one of which, with 
a stem as thick as one’s finger, bore three fertile spikes; 
etc. 
Following is a list of the ferns noted: Adiantum peda- 
tum, Aspidium Goldianum, A. marginale and var. elegans, 
A. noveboracense, A. spinulosum and var. intermedium, 
A. Thelypteris, Asplenium angustifolium, A. acrostichoides 
A. Filix-femina, A. Trichomanes, ce ohaee hh 
Dicksonia punctilobula, Onoclea sensibilis, O. Stru 
pteris, Osmunda regalis, O. cinnamomea, O. ES 
Phegopteris Dryopteris, P. polypodioides, Polystichum 
acrostichoides, P. Braunii, Polypodium vulgare and a 
variety, Pteris aquilina, Woodsia ilvensis, Botrychium 
lanceolatum, B. matricariaefolium, B. obliquum and var. 
oneidense, B. virginianum, Ophioglossum vulgatum. 
F, E. Corne. 
There will be a meeting of the Society, in connection 
with convocation week of the American Association for 
the Advancement of Science, at the Brooklyn Botanic 
Garden on the afternoon and evening of Friday, Decem- 
ber 29th. The afternoon session, at 2 P. M., will be 
devoted to visiting, under the guidance of Dr. Benedict, 
the fern collections at the Garden, including that of the 
Society and, especially, Dr. Benedict’s collection of 
varieties of the Boston fern. Following this will be an 
informal, inexpensive dinner at some restaurant, per- 
: haps in Chinatown. Members who are unable to- 
attend in the afternoon who wish to } the party — 
