﻿The swamp form is perhaps a rather extreme form of 

 the species. I have a swamp dilatatum with glandular 

 indusia, collected in Lowman, N. Y. I had labeled it 

 N. spinulosum fructuosum Gilbert. I now believe it 

 to be a spinulosum X intermedium hybrid. I ha^fe not 

 seen Gilbert's material but from the localities given I 

 judge that his specimens "-ere : :he:ted on lew ground: 

 and he says — "not as glandulose as var. intermedium. 33 



I shall look with interest for data and suggestions 

 from fern students bearing on aw of these questions. 



Elmira, N. Y. 



COLLECTING IN THE E\*ERGLADE5. 



By Charles T. Simpsom. 



Late in the Autumn of 1903 A. A. Eaton, John Soar 

 and Charles F. Simpson the well known writer on 

 niollusks, made a collecting trip to Southern Florida. 

 The following letter was written to a friend and not in- 

 tended for publication but it gives a more vivid im- 

 pression of botanizing in that part of the world than 

 pages of the usual perfunctory description and we have 

 accordingly obtained permission to publish it. 

 • "Eaton, Soar and I returned home from a collect- 

 ing trip as far as Long Key, in the Everglades, a week 

 ago. I have not had life enough to write to you since, 

 though I sent a package of ferns by mail, and a postal 

 card. We had a terribly hard trip following our 

 former road to near the end of the Homestead settlei 

 ment and the:: taking a r.e"- re id broken by the engin- 

 eers of the East Coast Railroad, to haul supplies over. 



For eleven or twelve miles there is no settlement, an 

 awful desolate country without a cap full of soil. 

 Nothing but the old coral reef, evolved into sharp 



