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THE FERN BULLETIN 



house early in the morning, arrived at the hill about 

 S :30, looked over one side of the hill during the fore- 

 noon, ate my luncheon, looked over the opposite side 

 of the hill in the afternoon, covered every foot of the 

 ground, and came away empty handed. 



But the mouseear and sorrel the grasses and the 

 savins appeared as vigorous as they did before the dry 

 spell. On the way home I looked in on the former 

 station for ramosum at Horse Hill. I found the place 

 almost as dry as an ash heap. And Mr. Eaton has de- 

 parted too. Sic transit gloria mundi. 



The late Mr. George E. Davenport once casually re- 

 marked to me (it was at the time we both were in- 

 terested in Aspidium simultatum and Aspidium cris- 

 t at u m x. marginale) that he had a few years pre- 

 viously found B. simplex growing on his grounds and 

 he was certain that it was a late arrival. He asked 

 how I supposed it came there and I replied, "I don't 

 know; are the plants growing there now?" ''No they 

 have disappeared" he said. I asked him this because 

 at that time I had never collected simplex and thought 

 that possibly his statement might lead to an oppor- 

 tunity for doing so. 



I asked if he knew of any locality in his 

 neighborhood where simplex could be found and he 

 said "I don't know of any locality for simplex" and 

 then he added, "The spores must have been blown 

 over there." 



Of course all of our native vascular cryptogams 

 were well known to Mr. Davenport, and he doubtless 

 was familiar with all that grew on his grounds, and 

 would soon notice new comers. Nor is there anything 

 unreasonable in his surmise that the spores that 

 eventually became plants of B. simplex were blown 

 onto his premises. 



