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Lycopodium selago is said by Dr. Thomas C. Porter to have 

 been collected at the famous Delaware Water Gap in Pennsylvania. 



In the Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club for April, 1896, Mr. 

 John K. Small records two additional stations for Asplenium Brad- 

 ley i, namely : Kings and Crowder's mountains in North Carolina. 

 It grows both on the cliffs at the summits and in crevices on large 

 boulders on the slopes. 



In Garden and Forest for October, 189G, Mr. George E. Daven- 

 port has an article on Dryopteris cristata* marginalis in which he 

 reaffirms the right of this plant to recognition. The article is ac- 

 companied by a full-page plate showing the principal differences 

 between this and the ferns nearest like it- 



Writing of the occurence of Asplenium ebenoides in Havana 

 Glen, Ala , Prof, Underwood says in the November Botanical Ga- 

 zette : "Many have regarded it as a hybrid, but the display of the 

 species at Havana clearly demonstrates .that it is not a hybrid at 

 all. Its nearest congener is Asplenium pinnatifidum, but the frond 

 is much thinner and more irregular than that species. In habit, 

 however, it is very close to that species, growing far under over- 

 hanging rocks; in this respect it is totally unlike both A platy- 

 neuron and Camptosorus rhizophyllus, its supposed parents. It 

 appears to be multiplying, as many j-oung plants were seen in the 

 rock crevices. This myth of hybridity may be put aside, for As- 

 plenium ebenoides is as clearly defined a species as we possess in 

 the genus Asplenium, and has no near relations outside its own 

 genus." 



The list of forking fronds continues to grow longer. Messrs. 

 C, E. Waters and Will E. Maxon record forking fronds of Aspleni- 

 um platyneuron ; Mr. Maxon notes the forking of Pellaea gracilis 

 and Dryopteris Noveboracensis ; Miss Imogene.C. Strickler men- 

 tions a forking frond of Onoclea Struthiopteris ; and Mrs. M. E. 

 Russell sends a frond of Dryopteris cristata that forks. This 

 brings the list of species up to thirty-seven. Doubtless the fern 

 that forks most commonly is the Scolopendrium, a plant with long 

 entire, plantain-like leaves, the very species in which one would 

 not expect to find this trait. Last September the editor spent a day 

 with Mr. Will K. Maxon in the haunts of the Scolopendrium and 

 more than twenty-five forked fronds were collected wfthout mak- 

 ing any special effort to find them. One much divided specimen 

 was forked six times. 



