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Middle Distric t.—S^ndy Hook (C), Farmingdale, Pt. Pleasant, New 

 Egypt, Hartford, Medford (S), Washington Park, Micklcton (H), Sewell 

 (S), Clementon, Atco (C), Sicklerville (S), Glassboro, Swedesboro, York- 

 town, Beaver Dam. 



Pine Barrens. — Hammonton (S). 



Coast Strip. — Seaside Park (UP), Barnegat, Manahawkin, Beach Haven 

 Terrace (L), Surf City (L), Beach Haven Crest (L), Holgate's (L), Ocean 

 City (S), Petersburg (S), Wildwood. 



Cape May. — Goshen (S), Three miles west Court House (S), Cape May. 



Dryopteris simulata Davenp. Massachusetts Fern. 



Aspidium simnlatum Davenport, Bot. Gaz. XIX 495. 1894 [Seabrook Essex 



Co. Mass.]. 

 Dryopteris simulata Stone, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci., Phila., 1908, 457. 



Originally discovered in our region at Clementon by Mr. 

 Stewardson Brown and apparently restricted to boggy spots or 

 cedar swamps on the edge of the Pine Barrens. 



Spores Mature. — Early August to late September. 



Middle District. — Glassboro, Shark River. 



Pine Barrens. — Farmingdale, Shark River, Double Trouble, Forked River, 

 Cox's, Clementon, Andrews, west of Sicklerville, Cedar Brook, Batsto Forks. 



Dryopteris cristata (L.).* Crested Fern. 



Polypodium cristatum Linneeus, Sp. PI. 1090. 1753 [N. Europe]. 

 Aspidium cristatum Britton 309. 



Northern New Jersey; occurring locally southward in the 

 Middle district. 



Spores Mature. — Late June to late July; indusia commonly 

 withering by early July. 



Middle District. — Red Bank (C), Farmingdale, Hanover, Moorestown 

 (UP), Camden (P), Medford (S), Lawnside (S), Mickleton (H), Tomlin, 

 Sewell (S), Atco (C), Swedesboro, MulHca Hill (C). 



Coast Strip. — Cox's. 



Cape May. — Cape May (O. H. Brown). 



Dryopteris marginalis (L.). Evergreen Wood Fern. 



Polypodium marginale Linnaeus, Sp. PI. 1091. 1753 [Canada]. 

 Aspidium marginale Britton 309. 



A common fern of the northern counties, rare and local w'ithin 



our limits and occurring only in the Middle district. 



* Dryopteris cristata clintomana Eaton (Gray's Man. Ed. V. 665. 1867. — 

 New York), was reported within our limits only from Little Timber Creek, 

 Camden Co., by L C. Martindale in Britton's Catalogue. The specimen was 

 not examined until after this page was in type. It seems to be correctly iden- 

 tified. 



