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The spots favored by Schizsea are so characteristic that the 

 practiced collector usually knows at a glance whether it is worth 

 while searching for it in any given locality or not. Our second 

 station — near Calico, about ten miles further west — was found in 

 this way. It was some distance from the road, but looked hi e a 

 Schizsea locality, and, going to it, specimens were found within 

 five minutes. All the locations in which I have found it growing 

 are very much alike. They may be described as open, sunny 

 cedar swamps, where the undergrowth consists mainly of huckle- 

 berry bushes and cranberry vines, with a plentiful sprinkling of 

 the round-leaved sundew (Drosera rotundifolid) , the thread- 

 leaved sundew (D. filiformis) and the three club-mosses, Lycopo- 

 dium Carolinianum, alopecuroides and Bigelovii. In any place 

 in southern New Jersey where all these grow, I should feel war- 

 ranted in expecting Schizsea. Even there, however, it might 

 have to be searched for on hands and knees. 



At the time of our visit the fertile fronds of the year were 

 very young, but we were pleased to observe last year's fertile 

 fronds remaining on many plants, just as they do on the sensitive 

 fern. The sterile fronds did not much resemble their pictures in 

 the books. They are not twisted in various ways, but are really 

 little coils or elongated spirals, which seem trying to lay hold on 

 the surrounding vegetation, thus indicating their relationship to 

 the climbing fern. 



Without doubt there are many other places in the southern 

 part of the state in which Schizsea grows, but like the ones men- 

 tioned above are too remote from the usual lines of travel to be 

 very often visited. The best known stations for the plant — Tom's 

 River, Forked River, Burlington, Atsion, Quaker Bridge and 

 Little Egg Harbor — are in a sort of circle on the borders of the 

 region we traversed, in themselves sufficient warrant for assum- 

 ing that it occurs at many places between. 



New York City. 



THE RUE SPLEE1WORT NEAR NEW YORK 



IN Central Valley, N. Y., about fifty-one miles from Manhattan 

 and fourteen from Newburg, there is a tract of land, part 

 cultivated and part swamp. Here, last August, we found a 

 number of limestone cliffs, of which three were almost devoid of 

 vegetation, the only sign of plant life being an occasional tiny 



