THE FERN BULLETIN 



Torreya, 3: 18-19, 1903.) The habit of the plant, 

 which has been often described, renders it inconspicu- 

 ous and unpromising to the average collector of flower- 

 ing plants. Unless especial search is being made, it is 

 much more likely to be gathered by collectors of mosses 

 and hepatics. 



Pteris longifolia at New Orleans. — This spe- 

 cies was apparently first recorded from Louisiana by 

 Mr. Clute in 1902 {Fern Bulletin, 10: 33), upon spe- 

 cimens collected by him from masonry in the "Girod 

 street Cemetery" and the "old St. Louis Cemetery" in 

 New Orleans. In the following year Clute and Cocks 

 reported it (Fern Bulletin 1 1 'A) as "abundant on the 

 walls of most of the Cemeteries of New Orleans, and 

 apparently well established." The original source of 

 the specimens now growing in New Orleans can 

 scarcely be determined with certainty, but that the spe- 

 cies occured there as long ago as 1889 is attested by 

 plants recently received at the National Herbarium 

 marked as having been collected at the St. Louis Ceme- 

 tery, New Orleans, in December, 1889. 



Another New Jersey Station for Asplenium 

 ebenoides. — In a collection of ferns recently received 

 at the National Herbarium are two small fronds of 

 Asplenium ebenoides Scott from the vicinity of Blairs- 

 town, New Jersey, collected August 2, 1883, the col- 

 lector's name not given. They are similar to the form 

 found near Baltimore, Maryland, by Dr. C. E. Waters 

 and figured by him (Fern Bulletin jo:3, 1902), ex- 

 cept that they are essentially pinnate at the base, the 

 pinnae broadly triangular-cordate and sessile, or even 

 minutely stalked. Both fronds show an occasional 

 junction of the ultimate veinlets near the margin, also 

 in this resembling Dr. Water's plants. They were re- 

 ceived under the name Asplenium pinnatifidum Nutt. 



