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plants. The mats seemed to represent merely the older portions 

 of the growth. 



The fern has been reported from still one other station in 

 Alabama, by Dr. E. A. Smith, State Geologist, who records it 

 from the "rock houses" at Pikeville, Marion county.* Marion 

 county adjoins Winston, and is largely of the same formation. 

 Aside from the bare location I think nothing is known of the 

 fern in that situation. It will be surprising if it is not subse- 

 quently reported from many more situations like these — sandstones 

 capping the coal measures — in both Tennessee and Alabama. 



A Second Eastern Record for Pell.^a densa. — Aside from 

 the station known for this fern at Mt. Albert, Gaspe, Quebec, I 

 believe it has not been known to exist east of the Rockies. 

 I have recently learned, through an examination of speci- 

 mens kindly forwarded by Dr. H. M. Ami, of the Geological 

 Survey of Canada, of its occurrence in Ontario, where it was 

 collected by Dr. Ami, in 1S33, on guelph dolomites along the 

 Little Sau river, near Durham, Grey county. Its companion 

 plants were Phyllitis scolopendrium and Pellcea atropurpurea. 



Washington, D. C. 



LYCOPODIUM INUNDATUM. 



By Willard N. Clute. 



WHILE collecting in the eastern part of Broome County in 

 southern New York, last summer, I was so fortunate as 

 to find a thriving colony of the rare little club-moss, 

 Lycopodium inundatum. This species is rather northern in its 

 distribution. Our station appears to be near the southern limits 

 of its range and at a much lower altitude than most of the sta- 

 tions for it further south. It is not uncommon in the New Eng- 

 land States except in Connecticut and Rhode Island, and has 

 been collected once in New Jersey, and three times in Pennsyl- 

 vania, so far as known. 



About three miles east of East Windsor, in the Susquehanna 

 Valley, and some hundreds of feet higher than the river is a 

 small sheet of water known as Marsh Pond. Its name is exactly 

 descriptive. The shores are so boggy on all sides that only here 

 and there can one approach the water. These boggy places con- 



*Geol. Surv. Ala. Rept. for 1881-2, on Agric. Features, etc., p. 438. 1883. 

 I am indebted to Dr. Mohr for calling my attention to this reference. 



