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Atsion, but not abundantly. But on the right of wagon road, a 

 mile or so nearer Atsion, and along the brink of the river, I found 

 considerable quantities. My experience was that the fern was 

 found more easily by the fruiting fronds, which were the full size 

 — 3 to 5 inches. The sterile fronds look so much like grass as not 

 to be readily recognized.— H. A. Green, Chester, S. C. 



Lycopodium alopecuroides and Wood ward ia areolata are re- 

 ported from a bog on Mt. Pocono, Monroe county, Pa., by Mr. 

 Howard P. Wells, who remarks that this is rather far from the 

 coast for these plants. 



Mrs. 0. P>. Graves, New London, Conn., reports a plant of Bo- 

 trychium ternatum which has an extra fertile stem rising from 

 the stalk of the fertile segment. She also records the occurrence 

 in her locality of Dryopteris cristataxi marginalis. 



Although the fronds of Asplenium angustifolium are simply 

 pinnate, while those of Asplenium acrostichoides are bipinnatifid, 

 there is a great resemblance between them. Both frequent the 

 same places, and at a little distance it is hard to distinguish one 

 from another. 



Miss Imogene C Stickler notes that last summer at Point Al- 

 bino, Ont , she collected a frond of Asplenium angustifolium that 

 measured forty-eight inches in length. Others -collected at the 

 same time ranged from thirty-nine to forty-six. This is much 

 larger than this fern usually grows. 



Mr. Howard P. Wells sends a drawing of a peculiar form of 

 Osmunda cinnamomea which he has observed in the Cattskill 

 mountains and in Monroe county, Pa. In this there is a smaller 

 pinna at the base of each of the main pinna?, and several of the 

 pinnules on the large pinna? are lobed on the side towards the ra- 

 chis. 



In the so-called variety, campestre, of Equisetum arvense, 

 nature shows us how both fertile and sterile stems of the plant 

 are derived from the same source, although they are so different 

 when mature. The pale, brownish-yellow fertile spikes that ap- 

 pear in early spring seem most unlike the green, branched sterile 

 stems that push up later, but the former sometimes show their re- 

 lationship by producing a few green branches at the base, while 

 the latter frequently develop small fruiting spikes at the summit. 



