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Rbizoma tufted and creeping. 



Veins forked. 



This plant was growing at a great elevation between Capes 



Rozier and Gaspe, on an exposed cliff. 



Asplenium viride, var. rohusfum. — This plant was found in 

 company with the ordinary and more fragile type of this species, in 

 the fissure of a shaded limestone ridge near Grand Greve, and 

 being of a much more vigorous and sturdy habit, it has been 

 deemed worthy of special mention. 



Fronds 3 to 6 inches long including stalk, width about J inch,, 

 linear with lance-apex, rather obtuse, pinnate. 



Pinnae mostly alternate, very short petioled, somewhat rhom- 

 boid-ovate in form, the basal ones being fan-shaped, cut into 

 rounded or irregularly-toothed lobes and rarely cleft. 



Rachis is of a similar color to the pinnae, or a bright light- 

 green. 



Length of the stalk is about one third that of the frond, It 

 is stout and its basal-half of a dark and shining purplish-brown. 



This plant has the fronds of a much thicker texture than the 

 common type. 



Asplenium Trichomanes. — A few plants of this neat and 

 dwarf-fern were found last summer on the northerly slope of 

 Montreal Mountain, growing in the crevices of a huge detached 

 rock, in a very secluded and precipitous spot. 



It has not, I believe, been found on the Mountain for many 

 years past, and one reason for its disappearance, in my opinion^ 

 is that the dry and crumbling rock formation does not receive 

 the drainage from the numerous swamps which formerly existed 

 on the top. 



Camptosorus rJiizophylhis. — Splendid plants of this " Walking- 

 Leaf" Fern, were collected last September, on some isolated 

 rocks in a shady-pasture near Hemmingford. 



Botrychium lanceolatwn, Angstroem. — A colony comprising T 

 plants, was found last August, which afforded an excellent illus- 

 tration of the gradation of this species, from the most minute ta 

 the largest fertile form. 



Fronds varying from 2J to 7 inches, measured from the top of 

 fertile part to the head of the concealed-bud at the base. 



Sterile segment is short petioled, or sub-sessile in small plants, 

 and usually attached to the common- stalk at its extreme upper 



