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and converting each hole or depression into a miniature sandy- 

 bog. The plant has been hitherto overlooked in this region. 



In this connection it is worthy of record, that on the flat of 

 the stream formed by the springs above mentioned, I first de- 

 tected the new variety Botrychium ternatum Oneidense, so well 

 described and aptly named by Mr. B. D. Gilbert. In a meadow 

 close by it was my good fortune to find several plants of Cen- 

 taur ea Jacea L., new to the Mohawk Valley. 



Equisetum litorale was first found in Central Nex York by 

 the late lamented Father Wibbe, on the banks of the Oswego 

 river at Minetto. and subsequently by Mr. F. V. Coville, at 

 Oneida Lake, on the banks of Fish creek, near its mouth. For 

 several seasons I have observed an Equisetum on the southerly 

 shores of Oneida Lake, in the town of Lenox, Madison county, 

 which is the type and also the variety gracile of Milde. 



This very slender, beautiful plant is there very common, grow- 

 ing in immense patches on the gravelly shores, not in sand, and 

 probably deserves further investigation. 



Utica, N. Y. 



A NEW STATION FOR ASPLENIUM EBENOIDES. 



By G. A. Woolson. 



SOONER or later the persistent botanist finds what he is look- 

 ing for. Asplenium ebenoides has weighed heavily on my 

 mind for several years. Late one afternoon last fall I dis- 

 covered the proper environment for the hybrid. July 25th I had 

 the pleasure of locating this unique production of Nature's handi- 

 work on a limestone ridge in Proctor, Vermont, making, I believe, 

 the third New England station. My had consisted of two small 

 plants in apocket of a rock. Just sixty-eight feet south of this pocket 

 Dr. H. H. Swift found another and much finer plant on a grassy 

 slope. The two in the pocket were young, with fronds varying 

 from three to five inches ; the other was evidently a long estab- 

 lished plant, several of the fronds measuring ten inches. A six- 

 inch member was rooting at the apex after the manner of one of 

 its probable progenitors. Asplenium ebeneum and Camptosorus 

 rhizophyllus were in abundance. Five feet from the pocket was 

 a tangled mass of both; single specimens of each were much 

 nearer. Another tangle of Asplenium ebeneum and Camptosorus 

 rhizophyllus was but three and a half feet from the big plant; 

 single specimens anywhere from six inches to two feet. 



