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spring up in all directions. In much the same way 

 the sensitive fern (Onoclea sensibilis) progresses ex- 

 cept that it grows slower and the rootstock is nearer 

 the surface. The branching rhizomes of the common 

 polypody {Poly podium vulgar e) creep along on the 

 surface and as befits a fern whose fronds survive the 

 winter, are clothed with rusty scales. Shirley Hibberd 

 writes in the 'Tern Garden" concerning this fern "You 

 may cut or pull to pieces this tuft almost ad lib., pro- 

 vided each separate portion has its own roots reserved 

 to it." Each piece will form a new fern. The common 

 maidenhair (Adiantum pedatum) grows in the same 

 way. Plant a single frond with its bit of rootstock in 

 the spring" and before summer has passed it will in- 

 crease to a dozen or more. It is generally true that 

 those plants which produce a circle of fronds from a 

 central crown do not move about ; the wanderers are 

 for the most part those species that send down roots, 

 push the rhizomes outward and send up fronds at inter- 

 vals all summer. — W. N. C. (Reprinted from Lin- 

 naean Fern Bulletin Xo. 1. pages 9-11). 



SCOLOPENDRIUM VULGARE. 



This is one of the rarest of American ferns and the 

 possibility of finding it in some locality from which it 

 has not before been reported may lend zest to the bo- 

 tanical outing. One of its best known stations is a 

 few miles from Syracuse, X. Y., where it grows in the 

 chinks of limestone that everywhere crops out of the 

 ground in that region. The writer collected it there 

 this summer in the shady depressions of a rich wood- 

 land, its fronds almost hidden in the lush growth of 

 other vegetation. Its immediate neighbor of the fern 



