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Equisetum robustum and Adiantum capillus veneris have 

 been found in Delaware County, Pa , by Mr. T C. Palmer. 



Mr. C. F. Saunders reports collecting Asplenium ruta-muraria 

 in North Carolina last summer. The plants were very scarce, 

 This seems to be this fern's southern limit. Does anyone else 

 know of its occurrence so far south ? 



Mr. Geo. E. Davenport writes that the bases of the pre- 

 vious year's stipes remain on the rootstalk of Dryopteris Nove- 

 boracensis and thelypteris as well as simulata, and that in conse- 

 quence this character cannot be relied upon for distinguishing 

 simulata from its near relatives. 



The original locality for Asplenium ebenoides is on the Schuyl- 

 kill river, above Manayunk. The Herbarium of Lafayette College 

 has a specimen from this locality, collected in 1867. The other 

 known stations for this plant are Havana, Ala. ; Canaan, Conn. ; 

 Poughkeepsie, N. Y., Jackson Co., III. , andHanover, Ind. 



The statement made in the July number that Asplenium .viri- 

 de has been collected in Connecticut is now found to be a mistake, 

 A. ruta-muraria having been mistaken for it. In Mr. James N. 

 Bishop's list of Connecticut plants, A. viride is reported from Wat- 

 erbury, but is said to need verification. An authentic record of 

 the occurrence of this fern in Connecticut is yet to be made. 



Under date of Nov. 20, 189G, Prof. Murrell writes : "A trip to 

 Weyer's Cave, Va. to-day discovers a beautiful plant of Asplenium 

 ebenoides among the A. parvalum above the entrance. This en- 

 courages the hope I had entertained of finding this species almost 

 anywhere in our valley, but very rare, The plant has been re- 

 ported from several widely separated localities and probably ex- 

 ists at numerous stations in the intervening territory. Fern 

 students should be on the watch for it." 



One thing about Dryopteris simulata not noted is its prone- 

 ness to the attacks of a worm that eats the spores as they mature. 

 In some places where it is abundant it is almost impossible to get 

 a perfect frond for this reason, especially in the latter part of Sep- 

 tember. The nuisance attacks other ferns also, but none so bad 

 as this. It spins a hne thread that makes a kind of shelter for it. 

 It is a bad thing to "go to press" as it often eats and completely 

 destroys good specimens after you think you are rid of it. It is 

 apparently the larva of one of the leaf-rollers, of the family Tortri- 

 cidte. — A. A. Eaton. 



