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NOTES ON LOCAL FLORAS V 



Anchistea virginica (Linnaeus) Presl. 



(Woodwardia virginica Smith) 



A common fern in the coastal region but considered rare or local 

 in other parts of the State. It is known, however, from numerous 

 localities in the central part of the State and its extreme northern 

 range is apparently indicated by a collection from a dry sphagnum 

 bog near the Grass river at Canton, St Lawrence county (Mrs Orra 

 Parker Phelps, August 24, 1916) and Beaver lake, Lewis county 

 (B. D. Gilbert).^ In Oneida county it has been collected in the 

 swamps of Rome by Paine' (p. 176) and at Sylvan Beach by H. D. 

 House.^ Paine also reports it from Wetmore's pond on Frankfort 

 Hill, Herkimer county, and from Junius, Seneca county, where it has 

 also been collected by Peck. In Oswego county it occurs in a bog 3 

 miles east of Phoenix (H. D. House, August 13, 1915), and at 

 Kasoag (Peck). In Onondaga county it is found in Cicero swamp 

 (H. D. House, August 15, 1916). Westward it is not so frequent, 

 but occurs in the bogs at Mendon, Monroe county (H. D. House, 

 July 5, 1917) and at Adams Basin (Baxter* p. 131). It is also 

 reported from Counterfeiter's ledge, Akron, Erie county, and Cas- 

 sadaga, Chautauqua county, by Day^ In the southern tier of 

 counties it is reported from 10 miles north of Binghamton by Clute® 

 and from Machias, Cattaraugus county, by Fenno". 



Polystichum braunii (Spenner) Fee 



This rare fern, well known in the Catskill region, was first found 

 in the Adirondacks by Professor Peck^ in 1871, on the base of 

 Bartlett mountain near Lower Ausable lake, Essex county, where 

 it has again been recently collected (E. P. Killip, July 24, 1917). 

 Lower Ausable lake is not in North Elba and hence this fern does 



^Torrev Bot. Club Bui. 6, p. 363- 1879. 



-J. A. Paine jr. Catalogue of the Plants of Oneida County and Vicinity, 

 i8th Ann. Rep't Regents, 1865. 



2 Torreya, 3 : 166. 1903. , . . 



* Beckwith, Macauley & Fuller. Plants of Monroe County and Vicinity. 

 1896. First Supplementary List by Beckwith, Macauley & Baxter. 1910. 



5 D. F. Day. Catalogue of the Native and Naturalized Plants of the City 

 of Buffalo and Vicinity (Buffalo Soc. Nat. Sciences Bui. 4, 1882). 

 Reprinted and repaged. 1883. 



*= Torrey Bot. Club Bui. 23, p. 424- 1896. 



'' N. Y. State Mus. Bui. 67, p. 5i- I903- 



s 24th Rep't N. Y. State Mus., p. loi. 1872. 



