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DEPARTMENT OF BOTANY 
14-' October 1-896. 1 ^9 
My dear friend-. 
The bit you enclose is as you suggest A. ebeneum or better 
A* platyneuron to be just to all parties*- It grows abundantly in some 
parts of Alabama and some of it grew not far from the A. ebenoides. I 
shall have a brief article sometime soon in the Gazette on the Alabama 
ferns and will indicate there 'at the A.ebenoides is not a hybrid 
having the habit of neither of its supposed parents* It grows way under 
the clefts of rocks that are overhanging and never out in the open or 
at the base of smaller rocks as in A. platyneuron* Ho more has it the 
habit of Camptosorus which usually grows on open sides of mossy rocks 
and not way under the cliffs as is the habit of both A. pimiatifidum 
and A. SHH1 ebenoidesi I secured what you used to call "bully 11 specim 
ens of A. platyneuron growing on wet sides of a ditch near Auburn, They 
are in somo cases nearly two and a half inches across in their 
widest place. I will have a n old-new Botrychium in my Gazette paper a 
and shall yank some more things out of ternatum if it is ternatum that 
we really have ; Prantl says we have not the true ternatum whose type 
is Japanese and of this I have just received specimens direct from a 
Yapii1 How do you like Britton's new flora. Of course you antique#' 
don't agree with the nomenclature but I do not refer to that. I mean 
the general cast of the matter irrespective of the matter of hamesi 1 
Small is picking out some nice things in both the Southern and 
Northern flora. He is a great boy; I wish you could meet him. Say-, come 
up here some time and we will treat you wellii We will fill you up with 
