Jan., 1922] HUNTER — 
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carefully mapped (figs. 1,2). More detailed maps are on file in the De- 
partment of Botany, Syracuse University, and copies of these are available 
to anyone interested. For convenience the stations will be discussed in 
the order in which Maxon describes them. 
Fig. I. Map showing Central New York stations for Scolopendrium. Stations are 
indicated by arrows; cliffs bordering glacial channels and plunge basins are shown by dotted 
lines. Scale: i inch = 8 miles. 
I. Geddes (Split Rock) Station 
Scolopendrium was first discovered in America by Frederick Pursh 
(7) in 1807 on "Geddes plantation," west of Syracuse and near the present 
village of Split Rock. In 1866 Mr. J. A. Paine (3) searched the region but 
failed to find Pursh's station. In 1879 the Syracuse Botanical Club (8) 
rediscovered Scolopendrium at what seemed to be Pursh's station. Re- 
ports show that it flourished there until 1895 when it was thought to have 
been exterminated by quarrying operations of the Solvay Process Company. 
There is some doubt as to the exact location of Pursh's original station. 
In his Flora Americae Septentrionalis (6) Pursh mentions "shady woods 
among loose rocks." In his Journal (7) he refers to 
A deep valley where we ascended a steep rocky hill; here large masses of rock seemed to 
be piled up or turned over on one another in such a confused manner that it has left chasms 
between them which sometimes appear like caves. 
It is quite probable that the deep valley referred to by Pursh is the one 
through which the Syracuse and Auburn Electric Railway now runs. The 
quarrying operations referred to were confined to the region south of this 
valley, and resulted in the removal of a mass of rock of probably fifty feet 
