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NOTES ON SOME FERNS OF FRANKLIN COUNTY, 



MAINE. 



H. W. Jewell. 



Mt. Day in the towns of Temple and Strong has long been a pop- 

 ular resort for local botanists, but Woods Hill, near Mt. Day and 

 only about half as high, has been less known. On a trip to Woods 

 Hill early in October many ferns were found, among others the fol- 

 lowing which are of special interest : 



Adiantum pcdatum, L. Quite plentiful. 



Aspidium amleatum, Swartz, var. Braunii, Koch. Three sterile 

 plants were found on Woods Hill; but on the east base of Mt. Day 

 a station of more than forty large finely fruited plants was seen. 

 This is a fine fern with a very distinguished appearance, and I am not 

 aware that it has been previously found in western Maine. 



Aspidium Goldianum, Hook. A large station of finely fruited 

 specimens near a brook. The only stations previously known in the 

 state are in the Kennebec Valley. 



Cystopteris bulbifera, Bernh. A large station on rocks and on the 

 ground along a brook. 



Cystopteris fragility Bernh. Only a few poorly fruited plants. 

 Woodsia Ilvensis, R. Br. Mt. Day. 



Aspidium spinu/osum, var. dilatation and var. intermedium on Mt. 



Day. 



Polypodium vuigare, var. auritum, Willd. Since reading in Rho- 

 dora for October of Miss Shaw's station for Polypodium vulgare, var. 

 cambricum I have sent to the Gray Herbarium specimens of a Poly- 

 podium which grows in three stations on ledges at Farmington, 

 and I am told that the plant is /'. vulgar^ var. auritum, which has 

 been known in America only from Essex County, Massachusetts. 

 The fronds are very thin, the margins of most of the pinnae are 

 crenate or undulate, and the lowest pinnae often have next the 

 rachis an elongated lobe. 

 Farmington Maine. 



CUPHEA PROCUMBENS AT ANDOVER, MASSACHUSETTS. On the 



22nd of September, 1901, I found a plant of Cuphea growing at 

 Andover and made a pressed specimen of it. 1 found the plant in a 



