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turns. When I had almost given up the search, I found it at 

 last, creeping under the roof of shelving rocks, sending up at in- 

 tervals of one or two centimeters its tiny fronds that look more 

 like the leaves of a large Mnium than a fern ; it occasionally 

 forms matted masses of fronds like those distributed by Judge 

 Peters years ago, but it is distinctively a creeping plant. I learn 

 from Dr. Mohr that the plant is found at one or two other sta- 

 tions, but so far it is not known outside of Alabama. Its minute 

 size, however, and its unusual habitat, would evade one not fa- 

 miliar with its habits, and it may have a wider distribution than 

 I now suspect for it. But before these things will be known we 

 need any number of people, call them botanists or what you may, 

 who know plants, their haunts and habits, who love the fields 

 and woods and search them with the zeal that prompted Peters 

 and Beaumont and the other earlier botanists of Alabama to make 

 known their native flora. — Dr. L. M. Underwood, in Botanical 

 Gazette. 



POLYPODIUn POLYPODIOIDES. 



•'Two years ago I collected this fern in southern Virginia. 

 It is a most curious and interesting little plant. The little pits 

 in which the sporangia grow are very noticeable. I know of no 

 other fern which possesses anything like them. The sporangia 

 mature in the pits under cover of the peltate scales with which 

 the under surface of the frond is liberally supplied, and when 

 fully grown the spore cases push the scales aside and appear at 

 the surface. These scales are very interesting. The fronds of the 

 year have scales of a light brown or reddish color ; the fronds 

 which have survived more than one season have rusty-gray scales, 

 and in the oldest stages the fronds have very few scales at all, 

 most of them having been weathered off." — F. Peyton Rous. 



OUR MISCELLANY. 



Mr. Alvah A. Eaton adds to the list of forking fronds Vitta- 

 ria lineata and Nephrolepis exaltata. 



On a recent trip to the vicinity of Little Ferry, N. J., Mr. 

 W. H. McDonald reports finding twelve species of ferns in a spot 

 100 feet square. Among them were Woodwardia areolata and 

 Dryopteris simulata. 



