54 
THE PLANT WORLD. 
near Fite’s Eddy was explored with very little result except some 
hard climbing over projecting rocks and wading in the rushing 
stream. However, the following report was made at the even¬ 
ing’s symposium, with Dr. Britton again in the chair. 
Mr. Jahn noted great abundance and fine condition of Silphium 
trifoliatum along the river at the mouth of this gorge. Mr. Van 
Pelt found several good clumps of Uniola latifolia near same loca¬ 
tion. Dr. Waters reported numerous large colonies of Cono- 
pholis Americana on sides of the gorge. This plant invariably 
appears in these great clusters around its host, no single or indi¬ 
vidual plants appearing from seed, yet judging by its large spikes 
of fruit it is an abundant seed producer. A specimen obtained 
from this region a number of years ago by the Philadelphia Bot¬ 
anical Club showed from 75 to 100 shoots clustered around one 
point of contact and nearly ending the life of the host’s root at 
that point. 
Dr. Joseph N. Rose showed extension in range of Apocynum 
hyperici folium. A good species separable from A. Cannabinum 
by its pure white flowers instead of greenish white, and glaucous 
cordate clasping leaves instead of green petioled ones. 
Professor Sumstine reported finding in abundance on the woody 
hillside near Cully’s Station a white fruited strawberry, which 
was round and about 1 cm. long and neither conic nor pink as in 
the common strawberry Frag arm Americana. 
Dr. Britton noticed Morns rubra in Mud Run and Mrs. Britton 
the following mosses : Hypnum Boscii, Thamnium Allegheniensis 
and two species of Leucobryum from same gorge. 
The recorder reported on the good condition of the rare fern 
Asplenium Bradleyi on large sheltered rock by river’s edge noticed 
by him and Mr. Brown some years previously. The species was 
maintaining its individuality in an oblique seam of the rock and 
in parallel seams A. pinnatiddum and A. platyneuron were doing 
the same. He also made note of the abundance in the upper por¬ 
tions of the gorge of Carex costellata. 
Dr. C. E. Waters showed some fronds of Asplenium platy- 
neuron, producing new plantlets near their bases. This condition 
had been found before, but infrequently. 
