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cannot be watered by seepage, and in no other way that 

 I can see unless by capillary attraction and by the fogs 

 that hang around the mountain tops during the early 

 hours of the morning. These dwarfed plants grow 

 thus in the seventy-five miles from Coal Creek to this 

 place; and this place is no exception to the rest of our 

 state, and the Western portion of Georgia. All the 

 stations found by Dr. Mohr are reported "plants very 

 small." You may say this is due to environment, 

 want of proper nourishment, want of moisture, and 

 exposure to the hot sunshine, any one of which would 

 kill a common fern, and all together kill an uncommon 

 one. The top of the limestone here is about 1200 

 feet. From Coal Creek it has left the limestone and 

 crawled up the mountain some -±00 feet, and set up 

 house keeping with the sandstones as a cliff dweller. 

 Bridgeport, Ala. 



RARE FORMS OF FERNS. — X. 



Lycopodium alopecuroides adpressum 

 polyclavatum. 



Although the Lycopodiums are certainly not ferns, 

 they are closely enough related to these plants to 

 warrant their inclusion in a series of this kind and we 

 select for illustration in this number the plant named 

 some years ago, Lycopodium adpressum polyclavatum 

 or perhaps more properly Lycopodium alopecuroides 

 variety adpressum forma polyclavatum. This plant 

 with the long name is simply a monstrous form of one 

 of the club-mosses that is found along the Atlantic 

 coast, from Massachusetts to Texas. In the south the 

 plant is usually tall and stout with spreading leaves ; 

 further north its height diminishes until it often re- 



