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There are probably a few other ferns than those mentioned 

 here which grow as yet undiscovered within our borders. The 

 above mentioned ones have been collected by the Botanical 

 Survey of the state, conducted under the management of the 

 Botanical Seminar of the University of Nebraska, and have 

 been deposited in its herbarium at the University. — R. Kent 

 Beattie, A. M., The University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Nebraska. 



A NEW STATION FOR THE HART'S-TONGUE FERN. 



LAST July on ah expedition to Perryville Falls, Madison 

 county, N. Y., planned for the purpose of finding the rue 

 spleen wort and the purple cliff-brake, a new station was 

 discovered for the hart's-tongue. 



To Miss Murray Ledyard, of Cazenovia, belongs the honor of 

 finding the first plants in this locality. We had been successful 

 in the original object of our journey and had crossed to the west 

 bank of the stream to examine the cliffs on that side. J. and I, 

 curious to study the wet wall of rock close to the sheer white veil 

 of water which fell more than 100 feet, finally secured an unsub- 

 stantial foothold among graceful tufts of the greenish, lily-like 

 flowers which ought to receive a more appropriate title than 

 Lygadenus elegans. 



Having satisfied ourselves that the mossy crevices harbored 

 no plants of the slender cliff -brake, now the immediate object of 

 our search, we followed the natural path beneath the overhang- 

 ing rock and above the sheer descent to the ravine, examining the 

 cliffs as we cautiously picked our way. Miss Ledyard had re- 

 mained below and suddenly we heard her give a triumphant 

 shout, followed by the joyful announcement that she had found 

 the hart's-tongue. On entering the ravine we had discussed the 

 possibility of such a discovery, but I had fancied that any hope of 

 it was unfounded, as I supposed the ground had been thoroughly 

 canvassed by the many botanists who had visited the neighbor 

 hood. 



The plants were still young, but large and vigorous, growing 

 in a partial opening among the basswoods, maples and beeches on 

 a steep slope covered with fragments of limestone, some thirty 

 or forty feet from the base of the cliffs. We must have found any- 

 where from twenty to thirty plants within a radius of as many 

 feet— Frances Theodora Parsons, Cazenovia, N. Y. 



