FERN FAMILY 

 Adiantum pedatuMj Linnaeus (Maidenhair Fern) 

 Baikliamsted, mountain woods; locally abundant 

 Bolton, wooded slopes at the notch; plentiful 

 Canton, rich woods about Mt. Horr; not in great quantity 

 East Hartford, scarce 

 Ellington, wooded slopes about Lake Shenipsit; colonies at frequent 



intervals 

 Farniington, east slope of Rattlesnake IMt. ; frequent 

 Granby, damp wooded hillsides; frequent 

 Hartford, scarce in Keney Park; frequent on Cedar Mt. 

 Hartland, mountain woods; well distributed 



Manchester, at frequent intervals throughout the wooded districts 

 Middletown, mountain gullies along the Connecticut River; frequent 

 New London, rich woods, rare near the coast, frequent inland 

 Plainville, rich wooded headlands of the Meriden Range; frequent 

 Simsbury, damp rich woods; well distributed 



Southington, rocky rich woodland, vicinitj' of Lake Compoimce; fre- 

 quent 

 South Windsor, south shore of Vinton's mill pond; frequent 

 Tolland, wooded slopes about Lake Shenipsit; frequent 

 Torrington, rich ground along Hart Brook; frequent 

 Vernon, rich moist woods of Box Mt. ; owing to successive forest fires 

 destroying the leaf mould the quantity has been greatly diminished 

 West Hartford, rich moist woods of the Talcott Range; plentiful 

 Winchester, rich woods about Highland Lake; frequent 

 Windsor, rich woods along the Farmington River at Poquonock; fre- 

 quent 

 The plant is well distributed at frequent intervals in wooded districts 

 throughout the entire state, yet as far as I have observed I fail to 

 find it a plant known as " common " 



ASPLENIUM TiiELYPTEROiDES, Michaux (Silvery Spleenwort) 

 Colebrook, I'ocky bank in good soil (Weatherby) 



Hartford, wood margin in Keney Park, near Gully Brook; few plants 

 Middletown, rocky rich woods along the Connecticut River; locally 



plentiful 

 Torrington, rich woods along Hart Brook; frequent 

 West Hartford, rich wood soil of the Talcott Range on Albany Ave.; 



locally plentiful 



Onoclea Strutiiiopteris, Hoffman (Ostrich Fern) 

 East Hartford, alluvial soil, banks of the Hockanum River near the 



mouth; plentiful 

 Farmington, river banks; plentiful 

 Gaylordsville, alluvial banks of the Housatonic River 

 South Windsor, banks of the Podunk near the mouth; small colony. 



Distribution: occasional, generally plentiful when found 



