Osmunda OSMUNDAC— POLYPODIAC. Phegopteris 



O. cinnamomea L. Cinnamon Fern. 



Common in moist ground. The Cinnamon Fern has been col- 

 lected in every county of the Peninsula, except Wicomico. 



Var. frondosa Gray. 



Rare, in moist ground: by streamlet in woods, 1 mi. e. of 

 Coldwell Corners (NC), R. R. Tatnall, 898, 30 May 1930 (T, A); 

 bog 2 mi. s. of Milton (S), R. R. Tatnall, 2183, 9 June 1934 (T). 



SCHIZAEACEAE (Curly-grass Family) 



Lygodium Sw. Climbing Fern. 

 L. palmatum (Bernh.) Sw. 



One known station : on a shaded slope bordering swampy ground, 

 l}/i mi. w.n.w. of Bear Station (NC). A colony of about a dozen 

 plants, detected by H. H. Hanson, 13 Feb. 1932. Very slowly 

 spreading; sporophyls first developed in 1941. A second stand in 

 the same vicinity, discovered by R. Earle Dickey, has probably been 

 destroyed. 



Apparently not introduced, in our locality. 



POLYPODIACEAE (Fern Family) 



Polypodium L. Polypody. 



P. virginianum L. (P. vulgare of Gray's Man., ed. 7.) Rock 

 Polypody. 

 Common on rocks of the Piedmont; infrequent on the Coastal 

 Plain, where it occasionally grows on banks, in rich soil, and even 

 on trunks of trees. 



P. polypodioides (L.) Watt var. Michauxianum Weatherby. (P. 

 incanum Sw.) Tree Polypody. 

 Infrequent, on trunks of trees, usually at a considerable height 

 above the ground, from Sussex County to central Accomac County. 



Phegopteris (Presl) F^e. Beech Fern. 

 P. hexagonoptera (Mx.) F^e. Broad Beech Fern. 



Frequent in open deciduous woods of the Piedmont ; less common 

 on the Coastal Plain. 



P. pol3rpodioides F^e. (P. connectilis Watt). Long Beech Fern. 



There is a sheet in the Canby herbarium in Wilmington, labeled 



**Woods, New Castle County, Miss Fell," probably collected about 



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