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1. Asplenium septentrionale (L.) Hoffm. Deutschl. Fl. 2: 12. 1795. 

 Acrostichum septentrionale L. Sp. PI. 1068. 1753. 



Belvisia septentrionalis Mirb. Hist. Nat. PI. 4: 65. 1803. 



Type locality: "Habitat in Europae fissuris rupium." 



Range: Black Hills of South Dakota to New Mexico and Arizona; also in Europe. 



New Mexico: Sierra Grande; highest point of the Llano Estacado; Cross L Ranch; 

 Santa Rita; Ben Moore. Upper Sonoran Zone. 



This grows in the crevices of rocks or beneath overhanging ledges. It is small and 

 almost grasslike, so that it is easily overlooked. 



2. Asplenium resiliens Kunze, Linnaea 18: 331. 1844. 



Asplenium parvulum Mart. & Gal. Nouv. Mem. Acad. Sci. Brux. 15: 60. pi. 15. f. 3. 



1842, not Hook. 1840. 

 Type locality: Mexico. 



Range: Virginia and Florida to Kansas, Texas, and Arizona. 

 New Mexico: Organ Mountains; Santa Rita; Florida Mountains. Upper Sonoran 

 Zone. 



3. Asplenium trichomanes L. Sp. PI. 1080. 1753. 

 Type locality: "Habitat in Europae fissuris rupium." 

 Range: British America to Alabama, Texas, and Arizona. 



New Mexico: Las Vegas Mountains; Mogollon Mountains; Santa Rita; Organ 

 Mountains. Damp slopes, Upper Sonoran to Transition Zone. 



8. ATHYRIUM Roth. 



Rootstocks stout; fronds large, oblong-ovate, twice pinnate; sori usually curved, 

 oblong; indusium straight or curved, opening along the side nearest the midrib. 



1. Athyrium filix-foemina (L.) Roth, Tent. Fl. Germ. 3: 65. 1800. Lady fern. 



Polypodium filix-foemina L. Sp. PL 1090. 1753. 



Asplenium. filix-foemina Bernh. Neu. Journ. Bot. Schrad. 1^: 26. 1806. 



Type locality: "Habitat in Europae frigidioris subhumidis." 



Range: Throughout most of temperate North America; in New Mexico only in 

 the mountains. 



New Mexico: Mogollon Mountains; Winsor Creek; Brazos Canyon. Transition 

 Zone. 



The lady fern is not common anywhere in the State, but has been found by a few 

 collectors in cool, shaded canyons beside running streams. 



9. DRYOPTERIS Adans. 



Rootstocks siout and thick; fronds broadly oblong-lanceolate, bipinnatifid or 

 bipinnate, 20 to 60 cm. long; sori dorsal, rounded, the indusium orbicular-reniform. 



1. Dryopteris filix-mas (L.) Schott, Gen. Fil. 1834. Male fern. 



Polypodium filix-mas L. Sp. PL 1090. 1753. 



Aspidium filix-mas Swartz, Journ. Bot. Schrad. 1800-: 38. 1801. 



Type locality: "Habitat in Europae sylvis." 



Range: British America to ^Michigan, New Mexico, and CaUfomia. 



New Mexico: Sierra Grande; Rito de las Frijoles; Las Vegas Mountains; Organ 

 Mountains; Ruidoso Creek. Transition Zone. 



The specimens here listed are doubtfully referred to this species, but they repre- 

 sent one of the forms which pass under the name. Further study may result in a 

 change of name for the southwestern form. It is nowhere common in our range, but 

 always seems well adjusted to its habitat wherever it occurs. 



