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THE AMERICAN BOTANIST. 



Lycopodium lucidulum has a curious feature that 

 makes it easy of identification. The leaves grow in two 

 series, a longer series alternating with a shorter. Each 

 series extends about three-fourths of an inch on the stem, 

 and the difference in the length of the leaves is quite notice- 

 able. This plant often propagates itself by means of 

 gemmae which fall to the ground where the^^ become new 

 plants. 



The stiff club moss {Lycopodium annotinum) is rarer 

 than the others in the region of which I am speaking and 

 is of itself much less beautiful. An allied plant which was 

 once classed as a Lycopodium but which is now placed in 

 another genus isSelaginella rupestris. This I found grow- 

 ing in great profusion in the clefts of rocks on some of the 

 higher hills. All of these plants are of wide range, being 

 found from Newfoundland to North Carolina, and a care- 

 ful study of them will richly repay the student of nature. 

 Shushan, N. Y. 



A NEW FERN FROM BERMUDA. 



BY B. D. GILBERT. 



WHEN I first gathered this fern in Bermuda I saw that 

 it could not be Asplenium trichomanes proper, as 

 it had been called up to that time, so I listed it as A. tricho- 

 manes var. majus Mett. Afterward it seemed to me to 

 come nearer A. anceps and I so published it, provisionally, 

 but without having seen Florida specimens. None of my 

 correspondents, not even the Gray Herbarium, seemed to 

 possess the Florida form. Last March, in order to satisfy 

 myself in regard to it, I went to Ocala, Florida, from 

 which point Captain J. Donnell Smith sent specimens to 

 Prof. D. C. Eaton, and there I collected the fern. I found 

 that it was not A. anceps, the pinnee being quite different 

 from that in shape. At first I was inclined to think it 

 might be A, resiliens hut frequent examination and com- 

 parison have led me to believe that it is a new species and 

 as such I have described it. 



Asplenium Muticum Sp. Nov. 

 Roots fibrous; rootstock covered with fine, black, 

 sharply lanceolate scales ; stipes clustered, black or eben- 



