ASPLENIUM EBENOIDES.—SCOTT’S SPLEENWORT. 115 
his little work were scarcely from the press it was found, in 
July of that year, in Franklin county, in that State, by Professor 
R. W. Wildberger. It is, therefore, probable from these several 
recent discoveries in widely separated localities that it will yet 
be found in many other places, and the probability will give 
increased interest to fern explorations. 
Miss Julia Tutwiler finds the plant in considerable quantity in 
her location, and, in a letter dated April 15th, 1879, to the writer 
of this, she thus describes her experience with it: “Our resi- 
dence in Alabama is in latitude 32° 47’ north, longitude 87° 45’ 
west, eight miles from the Black Warrior river. The black- 
lands, or cotton-lands, formerly prairies, covered with cane and 
with cedar-hummocks near there, lie about fifteen miles south of 
us. Where we reside the soil is either red clay, or a mixture of 
sand and gravel, except in the creek and river bottoms. The 
face of the country is rolling, covered with hills from one hun- 
dred to two hundred feet above the level of the sea. We find 
no stones here except conglomerate, or ‘pudding-stone,’ as it is 
familiarly called. The geologists say the whole formation here 
belongs to the tertiary. I was agreeably surprised some years 
ago to find some miles away from our home, in a deep glade 
formed by the gradual work of a little brook which now runs 
through it, several plants which I have never found around our 
home, though I know these woods quite well. One of these 
was the <Asfplenium cbcnoides, which then seemed to me so 
peculiar that I sent a piece to a botanical paper, and learned 
from the editor that it had been found in only one place in the 
United States before. The Virginian saxifrage, the Walking- 
fern, and several others quite common in the north, are here, but 
only in this deep shaded glen with the Asplentum ebenoides.” 
An interesting question in connection is conveyed in Mr. 
Williamson’s expression, “somewhat doubtful species.” Dr. 
Berkeley, above cited, thought it a probable hybrid, but appar- 
ently only because a single plant was found growing with Camplo- 
sorus—the “Walking-fern,” and Asplentum ebencum. Miss Tut- 
