Science met in Philadelphia in 1884, Che 
my of Natural Sciences organized a botanical excursion to the 
barrens near E^g H arbor, and took a carload of botaniitB ther© 
on purpose to find Schizaea and other local plants. Several 
members of the British Association, which held its sessions that 
year in Montreal, were with us, John Ball and Mr. Carruthera 
as well as Dr. Gray, Mr. Redfield, Mr. Canby, and Dr. Bernard 
Brinton and Mr. I. H. Martindale, who acted as guides. W« 
which is the subject of these notes, and to many of the party 
previously known only by dried specimens. The guides told us 
that they had discovered it entirely by accident, while sitting 
fine specimens, some of them six inches high, as well aa of the 
plant usually found growing wish it in New Jersey, Lycopodium 
inundatum Bigelovii. We have since searched for it in vain at 
Tom's River, New Jersey, where it is known to grow, and we in- 
cline to the belief that it is owing to its wiry leaves and small 
size that it is known from so few localities —£iizal>el/i G. Brit- 
Variations in Asplenium^^ 
tion to a variation in the fronds of Aspleniiim Trichomaneg, 
which he has found. Those which endure^the winter are smaU 
and lie flat on the prourd. The pinna^ are oval or sometimes 
nearly circular. Tiie stipe and rachis are thread-like and ir- 
regularly curved. The ■spring and summer fr.>nds Hre erect and 
much longer than the other?, with the pinnaj triangular and far- 
ther apart. The stipe and rachis of these fronds are quite 
only occasionally so. Has anyone else nocseed this oiEference ? 
The ebony spleenwort, a near relative of the fern under discus- 
