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as elusive as the other. The specimens referred to were distrib- 

 uted without name, along with other plants, by Dr. H. C. Beards- 

 lee, the label reading, " Springfield, Ohio, Mrs. E. J. Spence, col- 

 lector." Specimens from both localities are preserved in the 

 Herbarium of Columbia University, and do not differ in any par- 

 ticular from European specimens. 



ASPLENIUM FONTANUM. 



Fig. i. — Frond natural size. Fig. 2 — Pinna of "A. Halleri " somewhat 

 enlarged. 



It is a curious fact, in connection with the discovery of this 

 fern in America, that it has been reported many times from 

 Great Britain but always with such uncertain data that fern- 

 students there are still divided upon the subject of admitting it 

 to their catalogues as a native species. It is not preposterous to 



