THE FERX BULLETIN 



ill 



He has also published more or less in Torrey Bulletin 

 and Rhodora. 



Mr. Eaton was for two years Secretary of the 

 American Fern Society and President for one year, re- 

 fusing a re-election to the latter office on account of a 

 pressure of other matters. Later he took up the forma- 

 tion of an herbarium for the Society. He was ap- 

 pointed the first curator and retained this office until 

 his death. The Herbarium now numbers more than 

 one thousand sheets being particularly rich in rare and 

 unusual forms of ferns. The mounting is the work of 

 the curator. A portrait of Mr. Eaton was published 

 in the tenth volume of The Fern Bulletin. — W. N. C. 



ASPLENIUM EBENOIDES IN NEW YORK. 



By Stewart H. Burxham. 



My attention was called to a very fine plant of Scott's 

 Spleenwort {Asplenium ebenoides), October 14, 1905; 

 when visiting Miss Hattie T. Burnham. Miss Burn- 

 ham had found what she considered to be a peculiar 

 fern, in July of that year, in a limestone pocket, in com- 

 pany with Asplenium platyneuron and Camptosorus 

 rhizophyllus, in the northwestern part of the town of 

 Hartford, Washington County, X. Y.. and had trans- 

 ferred the plant to a flower pot where it was growing 

 finely. A more careful search was made about the 

 rocks in the neighborhood of the station, but no other 

 plants were found. However, several hundred rods 

 away, a station for the uncommon Asplenium platy- 

 neuron incisum ( E. C. Howe) Robins, was found. In 

 August 1906 the plant had grown so well that it was 

 divided, Miss Burnham keeping part of the plant which 

 has not grown so luxuriantly as the other portion of 

 the plant which came into my possession at that time. 



