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hitherto found, I believe, only at Tampa Bay. This additional 
station for the latter fern, so far in the interior, is of interest in its 
distribution. The former fern is recorded in Chapman's Flora as 
eing found in Florida, on authority of Michaux and Buckley; 
while in William Edwards’ Catalogue of North American Ferns, 
1876, corrected by Professor D. E Eaton, the habitat of “ near 
Enterprise, Florida” ‘on the St. Pia River) i is given, so that I 
presume it is considered uncommon 
may also mention that I met with ar ene nudicaule i 
f. in an old field about one mile to the westward of Santa Fe 
Lake. I observed a habit in this diminutive fern (it is often 
barely one inch in height) which may not be generally known. 
I noticed that the spike or fertile part comes up wrapped in the 
winged petiole of the sterile part of the frond, and so remains, 
completely enclosed, till well advanced in its development.— 
Henry Gillman, Waldo, Florida. 
LYCOPODIUM CERNUUM IN FLORIDA.—In November, 1877, I 
found this rather elegant species growing in abundance on the 
sides of a damp, deep ditch, at Santa Fe Lake, Florida. It 
seemed quite at home, developing many protean forms and 
luxuriant vegetation. But it grew only where the clay had 
been exposed or thrown out in constructing the ditch, which is 
many years old. r. Chapman in his “Flora of the Southern 
United States,” does not include Z. cernuum L.; but I believe it is 
common in the tropics. Iam not aware that it t has hitherto been 
discovered within the United States. At any rate, it is interesting 
Florida. I d frequent, in the low pine barrens in this 
same BEER H OEY L sieges cig L. var. pinnatum Chapm. 
hitherto recorded as from ar the coast, West Florida.” — 
Henry Gillman, Waldo, Florida. 
Botanica, News.—The Bulletin si pin Torrey Botanical Club 
for July and August contains some r ing notes on collecting 
and preserving herbarium specimens whieh will be of value to 
young botanists. Professor Eaton records the discovery of a rare 
and curious moss, Conomitium julianum, at Hamden, Connecticut. 
A farther note on the bibliography of North American lichenog- — 
raphy by Mr. H. Willey, and a critical, lengthy notice of Rafin- 
esque’s monograph of Lechea, together with a notice by O. R. 
Willis of the occurrence of Calluna vulgaris at Egg Harbor, New 
Jersey, with Nie Susie to other new New Jersey plants, com- — 
plete the num 
The seventy- ~sixth fasciculus of the Flora Brasiliensis consists _ 
of the Lemnacee by Hegelmaier, and the Aracee by ae er. The 
morphology and anatomy of the duck weeds, by the former 
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author, is illustrated by a fine plate. The flowers and fruit ot. 2 
Lemna (Spirodela) Poraa are drawn from Norti Amean : 
