THE CURLY GRASS AND THE CLIMBING FERN. 279 
believed to have come from New Jersey and to have 
been wrongly labelled. 
In parts of New Jersey, this plant may be said to be 
fairly common, and new stations for it are frequently 
discovered. It delights to grow in wet open places in 
the midst of sphagnum and cranberry vines, with.Lyco- 
podium Carolinianum, L. alopecuroides and the sundews 
for companions. Usually there are cedar swamps in the 
vicinity. When all these plants are present, one may 
have great hope of finding the fern. New stations for it 
have been predicted from a distance by means of its com- 
panion plants, and the prediction subsequently verified 
by the finding of specimens. New stations, however, are 
most frequently found by accident. The one at Tom’s 
River is said to have been discovered by a botanist who, 
in placing his open press on the ground to put in some 
plants, found Schzzea peeping up between the sides. 
Besides the name of curly grass given it from the form 
of the sterile fronds, it is sometimes called one-sided fern 
because the fertile pinnz appear to be all on one side of 
the rachis. Lawson, in his “ Fern Flora of Canada,” 
gives it the fanciful name of Atlantis fern, but this, like 
most manufactured names, has not come into general 
use. 
At present, Newfoundland and Nova Scotia are the 
only places outside of New Jersey in which this fern is 
known to grow, if indeed, it is now found in Nova Scotia 
at all. The station, which was a small one, is said to 
have been destroyed by fire. In the vast stretches of 
country between Newfoundland and New Jersey there are 
bogs with many variations of soil and temperature, 
some of which should be suitable to its growth, and it is 
not unlikely that our plant may yet be found at other 
