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The soil is sandy and ferns, with the exception of Pteris aquilina, 

 all seem to grow in moist places. The four commonest ferns 

 were Osmunda einnamomea. IV oodzvardia angustifolia, Pteris 

 aquilina and Athyrium Mix-foemina. Most of the Athyrium 

 was the variety rubellum. There was also some Woodzeardia 

 Virginica, Asplenium ebeneum and Osmunda regalis. In the 

 clumps of O. ci una mo nc a which produced fertile fronds, some of 

 them were already 3 feet high, while the sterile were only 2 feet. 

 The sterile fronds often had red stems which were not at all 

 woolly, and if these characters continue throughout the season, 

 they .might be sufficient to constitute a new variety. Wood- 

 zcardia angustifolia had sterile fronds a foot or more tall, but 

 there was as yet no sign of fertile fronds. The young fronds 

 as they began to unfold were quite pinkish. It grew more plenti- 

 fully than any other fern seen. Asplenium ebeneum grew both 

 in dry and in moist places. Its fertile fronds remained through 

 the winter and stood upright among the freshly started sterile 

 fronds. On one of the old abandoned plantations there was an 

 engine under a shed. The door of the boiler was about 2 feet 

 above the ground, and there was an iron shelf in front of the 

 door about a foot wide. This shelf or hearth probably had some 

 wood ashes left on it when it was abandoned, and this little As- 

 plenium had found a lodgment there and now covers the whole 

 length of the hearth, about two feet. 



The city of Savannah is supplied with water from artesian 

 wells. These are found also at different points about the 

 country. One of these spouters exists in the middle of a large 

 field about four miles from the city toward the Isle of Hope. Of 

 course the ground about it is now marshy and here Woodzvardia 

 Virginica has taken up its abode in large quantities. The young 

 fronds are beautifully pink, but as they increase in size the pink 

 color retreats toward the edges and forms an extremely pretty 

 border to the bright green lamina of the pinnae. 



The only ferns which showed any fruit were the last year's 

 fronds of Asplenium ebeneum and some of the largest fronds of 

 Athyrium filix-foemina rubellum. 



