very ferns that have been named are not the ones to be selected 

 for their abundance of sori. Scelopc?idrhim vulgare may have 

 all its sori in the upper half of the leaf, but none of them are close 

 to the tip. There is a point in the fertile belt of pinnae of the 

 Christmas fern {Dryopteris acrostichoidcs) from which the repro- 

 ductive tendency diminishes upward as well as downward, and 

 this is true of the Asp : diums and their allies generally. This leads 

 us up to the most striking illustration of the thought in mind, 

 namely, Claj'ton's Osmunda {Osmund a Claytoniana), where as a 

 rule the lower half of the upper half of each frond has its pinnae 

 fertile, while those above and below are vegetative in the full 

 meaning of that term. 



Returning now to our original "sport" of the Wocdwardia, 

 it is seen that the largest of the uppermost dozen pinnae is at the 

 summit; but not without sori, while, as before stated, the lower- 

 most ones are sterile. It would seem that this freak would sug- 

 gest that even in the normal fertile leaves of the Woodwardia, or 

 any other fern for that matter, the reproductive activities are at 

 their greatest in the upper middle of the spore-bearing belt of the 

 leaf. — Abridged from an article by B. D. Halsted in the Plant 

 World. 



A NEW LOCALITY FOR ASPLENIUM PINNATTrlDUM. 



X the afternoon of March 26, 1S99, a party of us had landed 



some two miles below Scott Run and had examined the 



cliffs and shore line for some distance toward that stream. 

 Many dead fronds of Onoclea Struthiopteris were noticed, and 

 also quite a number of Camptosorus and tne more common 

 species. While examining the face of the high, well-shaded por- 

 tion of a cliff, I was surprised to discover in a narrow rift of the 

 rock but a few feet in front of me, two plants of Aspleniu/n 

 pin?iatifidum which had heretofore never been found in this 

 vicinity. This most unexpected find stimulated the efforts of the 

 party to such an extent that about ten minutes later Mr. W. R. 

 Maxon, while scaling the more exposed portion of the cliff, dis- 

 covered other plants, and a few minutes later every member of the 

 party found as many of the plants as were desired and left many 

 others. The specimens just found were large and deeply colored, 

 owing to their shady, moist situation, while the others had paler 

 and smaller fronds. The fronds of the former have short stipes 



