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THE FERN BULLETIN 



lustrations of the Genus Carex." These classical and 

 valuable volumes Judge Peters bequeathed to the Uni- 

 versity of Alabama, his Alma Mater together with his 

 mycological herbarium and collection of carices all 

 mounted and labeled. In 1880 the writer had the priv- 

 ilege of enjoying the company of this venerable botan- 

 ist during his investigation of the forests in Laurence 

 and Winston countries, and also received from him 

 much valuable information on the mountain flora of 

 the state. 



PTERIDOGRAPHIA. 



New Station for Mountain Spleenwort. — Dr. 

 L. G. Pedigo reports the recent finding of Asplenium 

 montanum on the summit of Bald Knob in Virginia 

 at an altitude of 4,500 feet. 



A Variant Osmunda. — Through the kindness of 

 Miss S. E. Hilt, we have received specimens of Os- 

 munda cinnamomea, collected at Petersham, Mass., in 

 which the margins of all the pinnules are revolute 

 making a close resemblance to Osmunda cinnamomea 

 f. An gust a recently illustrated. If this new form re- 

 tains its unusual character it may prove worth naming. 



SCHIZAEA PUSILLA IN NEWFOUNDLAND. 111 



Rhodora for May, E. H. Eames notes the finding of 

 Schizaea pusilla in a salt marsh near the railway at 

 Bay St. George Newfoundland. Of the other stations 

 for this fern in Newfoundland that of Waghorne was 

 in the vicinity of the Bay of Islands, 125 miles away 

 and that of La Pylaie was probably on the French Is- 

 lands. The discoverer of the new station reports as 

 follows : "The plants were somewhat smaller than in 



