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in some regions. In Maine, Merrill' reports it as carpeting "the top of 

 most of the ledges, or hanging gracefully over their brinks, or nestling 

 beneath some evergreen tree, whose branches spread ont their protect- 



Fig. 21. Sulliv:iiilia (I i-cjuint;- im tlio Face of the (.'liff. 



ing arms." At Sugar (Jrove the i)!ant is (luitc liinilcd. except in a 

 few stations, to tlu^ edges of tlic rocks. iKMlhci- (■;irpc1iiig their tops 



1. Merrill, FI. \V. I'dlypddium viil>;;iri' in Mnitic. Am. I'cni .Icmr. 1 : 7 9, 1910. 



