SCHIZiEACE^E. 

 Lygodium palmatum Sw. What seems to be the first 

 printed reference to this rare fern, (several years before it 

 was formally described) is based on Georgia specimens. 

 Bartram in his Travels (page 41 of the 1794 edition) 

 speaking of the plants observed in May. 1773, along the 

 " Great Ridge " of Middle Georgia, probably in what is 

 now Oglethorpe County, thus describes one of them : 

 " Malva scandens, filix scandens. perhaps a species of 

 trichomanes ; the leaves are palmated. or radiated : it 

 climbs and roves about, on shrubs, in moist ground." On 

 page 476 he mentions the occurrence of the same plant 

 ( calling it Ptcris scandens) in Xorth Carolina. This can 

 be no other than our Lygodium. It has not been seen in 

 Georgia since, apparently, but that is not very remark- 

 able considering its well-known rarity and the scarcity 

 of botanists in that part of the country. There are prob- 

 ably not half a dozen known stations for this fern in the 

 whole South. 



Lygodium JapOnicum Sw. The occurrence of this 

 exotic species as an escape in Thomas County has already 

 been announced editorially (American Botanist, 5:36, 

 Aug., 1903: Fern Bull. 11: 106. Oct., 1903). It grows 

 luxuriantly in roadside ditches, climbing over weeds and 

 fruiting copiously, near a greenhouse about two miles 

 east of Thomasville. Mrs. A. P. Taylor, who showed 

 me this station in August. 1903. informs me that the 

 greenhouse was burned down soon afterward, but that the 

 Lygodium is still there, and stands drought as well as 

 cold. 



osmuxdace.t:. 



Osmunda regalis L. In wet woods, throughout the 

 State, but not common. Fruits in April. This is one of 

 the few ferns which inhabits Okefinokee Swamp (see 

 Torrcya. 2: 157. Oct., 1902). 



( >smunda cixxamoxea L. As widely distributed as 

 the preceding, having about the same habitat, and fruit- 

 ing at the same time : but much more frequent. 



