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It is not easy to make good photographs of the ferns, but 

 that this may be done is attested by the pictures that are received 

 at this office from time to time. We are desirous of obtaining 

 photographs of fern localities, fern gardens, clumps of ferns, 

 large, curiously shaped or specimen plants, or anything of this 

 nature of interest to fern students. When possible we will repro- 

 duce them in the Fern Bulletin. 



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It is a curious fact that the discovery of Phyllitis Scolopen - 

 drium in America by Frederick Pursb, was indirectly the means 

 of preserving from destruction that botanist's journal of his trip 

 through New York and Pennsylvania. At the death of Dr B. S. 

 BaTton in 1817, this journal came into the possession of the Amer- 

 ican Philosophical Society, along with other papers, where it lay 

 for a long time unrecognized. Finally the attention of Mr. Thos. 

 P. James, then Librarian of the Society, was called to an entry 

 under July 20th, in which the writer says, after enumerating nu- 

 merous plants found in a deep ravine on the grounds of a Mr. 

 Geddes: " And what I thought the most of, Asplenium Scolopen- 

 drium— this fern which I don't find mentioned by any one to 

 grow in America I always had a notion to be here: & indeed I 

 was quit enjoyed to find my prejudice so well founded in truth. 

 It appears to be the same as the europaen, only smaler: query? 

 is the europaean auriculated at the base like this species ? " This 

 entry was compared with Paine's notes on the discovery of the 

 fern by Pursh in the American Journal of Science and Arts for 

 September, 1866, and the ownership of the journal discovered- 

 In 1869 it was published by the American Philosophical Society, 

 with all its mis-spelled words and quaint phrasing unchanged. 



Regarding the habitat of Asplenium Bradleyi in Kentucky 

 Miss Sadie F. Price writes as follows : "I found it in this (War- 

 ren) county about 13 miles from Bowling Green, near Green 

 river, in September, 1892. A chain of hills crowned with sand- 

 stone cliffs extend along this river. The walls are worn into 

 picturesque grottos and clothed with a wealth of ferns — Polypo- 

 dium vulgare, Camptosorus rhizophyllus, Asplenium pinnati- 

 fidum, Cheilanthes lanosa and others. In this company is found 

 the interesting Asplenium Bradleyi. Prof. Hussey found this in 

 a similar place in an adjoining county." 



