Asplenium filix-foemina (L.) Bernh. Lady Fern. Frequent 

 in rich damp woods. Spores mature in May. 



Records. Bachman: Charleston. Bragg: Charleston Navy- 

 Yard (H), Otranto. Coker: Hartsville. Ravenel: Santee Canal. 



Lorinseria areoiata (L.) Presl. Net-veined Chain-fern. 

 Very abundant in freshwater swamps and along the rice field 

 canals. 



Records. Bachman: Charleston. Bragg: Charleston Navy 

 Yard (H), Otranto, Georgetown County along rice lands of 

 Pee Dee and Waccamaw Rivers, St. Andrews Parish (H), Sumter. 

 Coker: Hartsville, Ten Mile. Ravenel: Santee Canal (H). 



Onoclea sensibilis L. Sensitive Fern. Not common. 



Records. Bachman: Charleston. Bragg: St. Andrews Parish 

 (H). Ravenel: Santee Canal (H). 



Polystichum acrostichoides (Michx.) Schott. Christmas Fern. 

 Common in dry mixed woods near the coast. At Stateburg 

 found in a deep gorge. Brought into Charleston throughout 

 the year by the negro women selling flowers. 



Records. Bachman: Charleston. Bragg: Cainhoy, Otranto 

 (H), Plantersville, Stateburg. Porcher: St. Johns Berkeley. 



Dryopteris noveboracensis (L.) A. Gray. New York Fern. 

 Recorded by Bachman, probably erroneously for D. thelypteris, 

 a common species near Charleston. 



Dryopteris thelypteris (L.) A. Gray. Marsh Shield-fern. 

 Common in wet woods. 



Records. Bragg: Charleston Navy Yard (H). Coker: Isle 

 of Palms. 



Dryopteris patens (Sw.) Kuntze. Several plants on an old 

 brick tomb at Goose Creek Church, Otranto, are all that I have 

 found. Dr. B. L. Robinson kindly determined the species for 

 me. Chapman, in the third edition of his Flora, includes South 

 Carolina in its range but Small does not. 



Records. Bragg: Otranto (H). Ravenel: Eutaw Springs 

 (Gray Herb.). 



Dryopteris floridana (Hook.) Kuntze. Florida Shield-fern. 

 Not previously recorded for South Carolina. Abundant in sev- 

 eral localities at the Charleston Navy Yard, growing in damp 

 woods along streams running through the pine barrens. Asso- 

 ciated in one particularly rich spot with the Cinnamon and Royal 



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