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distance of full sixty rods from the nearest growth of Asplenium 

 ebenoides, and on the side of a sloping fallen boulder in the bed 

 of the creek. Asplenium platy?ieuron grows more commonly, 

 usually at the base of fallen rocks or cliffs, while Asplenium 

 ebenoides has a habit utterly unlike either of its supposed partnts, 

 growing far under widely overhanging cliffs and higher above the 

 stream than either of the other ferns mentioned. No one can 

 secure any environmental evidence that this species is a hybrid 

 from visiting Havana, and any one who will compare Mr. Daven- 

 port's interpretation (page 9, report of Boston meeting) with the 

 facts as stated above, will see how his "ideal situation" for pro- 

 ducing a hybrid fern melts away when we base our speculations 

 on facts rather than upon inaccurate reports. — L. M. Underwood. 

 Columbia University July 3, 1899. 



DISTRIBUTION OF THE RUE SPLEEfWORT IN OHIO. 



By W. A. Kellerman, Ph. D. 



NLY one locality in Ohio is known, so far as I am aware, 



ior Asplenium rut a-mur aria. Specimens have been sent 



from different counties of the State from time to time 

 labelled as this species, but they have invariably proved to be 

 Asplenium montanum. Years ago Asplenium rut a-mur aria 

 was found by Mrs. E. J. Spence, of Springfield, and Professor 

 Claypole, formerly of Yellow Springs, in the Clifton Gorge in 

 Greene county, Ohio. This beautiful little gorge, about three 

 miles long, cut in the Niagara formation, is the home of many 

 ferns mosses, liverworts, and not a few interesting flowering 

 plants. I have visited the place several times in vain search for 

 Asplenium fontanum, said to grow at "Springfield, Ohio; the 

 rarest North American fern, " apparently a mistaken reference 

 on the part of Professor Underwood. But it was a delight to see 

 the quantity of Asplenium rut a-mur aria — specimens to burn — 

 from one end of the gorge to the other, though Professor Claypole 

 would tell no one of the " only locality in which it grew years 

 ago," lest it might become exterminated. 

 Ohio State University, Columbus, O. 



— Miss Mary F. Miller reports finding in a forest in the Catskill 

 mountains two plants of Botrichium lanceolatum with well-de- 

 veloped sporangia, or what would normally be the sterile part of 

 the frond. 



