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Habitat of Botrychium Simplex. — In Vol. XIV. 

 Xo. 2 of this publication I find an article entitled. "The 

 Distribution of Batrychia." in which Mr. Winslow 

 says that he never collected Botrychium simplex in the 

 woods unless his tcncbrosum was simplex. I have nev- 

 er collected tencbrosum but have collected several hun- 

 dred plants of simplex and have found all of them in 

 the woods. Out of four localities that I have for sim- 

 plex one is in the edge of a cedar swamp and the others 

 are in dry hardwood land. I do not think that it is as 

 common as Ophiaglossum vulgatum in my vicinity but 

 it is by no means rare as some authorities state. — D. 

 Lewis Dutton, Brandon, Vt 



A Fragrant Marsh Ferx. — Miss Sarah F. San- 

 born, of Concord. N. H.. recently sent us a fragrant 

 specimen of the Marsh fern {Nephr odium thelypteris) . 

 This fern is not usually fragrant, but the specimen un- 

 der notice is very strongly so. Even in the dried con- 

 dition the fern still gives out its pleasing odor. The 

 fragrance may for want of a better name be described 

 as "ferny." It is of the same nature as that given off 

 by drying ferns in general, but in this case it is far 

 sweeter and fully entitled to be called a perfume. It 

 is very similar to the odor of the New York fern, the 

 boulder fern and the fragrant fern. A similar odor 

 is given out by Asplenium fro grans of the tropics and 

 by various species of polypody. An especially fra- 

 grant form of the X T cw York fern, has been named 

 fragrans and if the present specimen needs a name 

 to characterize it. it might be called suaveolens. 



