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tracted quite from a distance by this habit, as above de- 

 scribed. It has been said, that the pinnules do not seem 

 to become revolute, as in N. thelypteris. They do ! It 

 is the rule here, indeed. 



By the beginning of October the sterile fronds have 

 become so limp, brownish, and generally ragged, that it 

 is hard to find a good frond for the herbarium, but the 

 fertile ones still stand upright, bright and green. As 

 this interesting fern grows here, the fertile fronds re- 

 semble those of iV. tfaelypteris. The pinnae are also 

 drawn out in a rather long acute point. They could 

 newer be taken for the New York fern, not even by a 

 beginner, if he is observant. But the sterile ones 

 might. Is it possible that N. simulation is a hybrid be- 

 tween N. noveboracense and N. thelypteris, as N. 

 Boottii appears to be a hybrid between N. cristatum and 

 a swamp form of N. spinulosum? 



LYCOPODIUM LUCIDULUM POROPHILUM 

 IN OHIO. 



By Almon N. Rood. 



I am sending you under separate enclosure a speci- 

 men of Lycopodium which I first found last season 

 growing at Nelson Ledges, Portage Co., O. At that 

 time only a single plant was discovered which Prof. 

 C. C. Curtis of Columbia University pronounced L. 

 Selago. As this is out of any reported range for L. 

 Selago, I was naturally very anxious to re-establish my 

 discovery and wrote to several friends who collect in 

 this region to be on the lookout for it, giving them its 

 probable locations. As a result my friend R. J. Webb, 

 of Garrettsville, O., and Prof. L. S. Hopkins of Pitts-^ 

 burg, Pa., re-discovered it at my old station at Nelson 



