No. 1.] GOODE — NOTES ON CANADIAN FERNS. 51 



its strong wiry roots penetrate, and possesses a most pleasant 

 perfume, almost equalling the sweet-scented violet. It thrives 

 only indiiferently well in cultivation. 



Camptosorus rhizophyllus, or Walking Leaf. This specimen 

 was contributed from Hemmingford ; it is found on Isle Jesus, 

 on large, mossy boulders, and throughout Quebec and Ontario. 

 This species is the only one of our Canadian ferns which pos- 

 sesses the property of forming new plants from the rooting of the 

 attenuated extremities of the old fronds, and in this manner 

 travels over the face and sides of the rocks. 



Asjylenium Trichomanes. This fern, so common to collectors 

 in the Old Country, appears to be rare in Canada, the only 

 places I have found it being at the rapids below Niagara Falls, 

 and at Bolton Springs, in the Townships, where I collected the 

 fine specimen now exhibited, last summer. I have transplanted 

 some roots of this neat and pretty fern to our own mountain. 



Dicksonia 2yunctiIohula. This fern is very beautiful in its 

 early stages, and emits, while drying, a strong odor, like sweet 

 hay. I have not yet found it on the Island of Montreal ; but 

 it is very common in the Eastern Townships, especially at 

 Knowlton, opposite Rockwood, Boscobel, and other places. Its 

 creeping rhizomes push vigorously in every direction, soon form- 

 ing immense clumps. 



Bofri/chium gracile. The specimens of this pretty dwarf 

 species were found at Gaspe, last summer. I have never seen it 

 elsewhere. 



Our Montreal mountains and their surroundings contain a 

 very fair share of ferns. I have collected twenty-five species there 

 twenty-four of which were seen last summer, the followino- beino- 

 a list : 



Polypodium vnlgare, - - abundant on N. E. side, amongst loose 



rocks. 

 " phegopteris, - N. E. base, 



« dryopteris, - luxuriates on well-rotten stumps, in 



shady woods. 

 Struthiopteris germaiiica, - in swamp, S. E. side Mount Royal 



Cemetery. 

 Pteris aquilina, . - _ dry, open spots. 

 Adiantum pedatum, - - very abundant oft" Mt. Royal Cemetery 



avenue. 

 Asplenium angustifolium - rather rare ; grows on N. W. side Mt. 



Royal Cemetery. 



