4. 



weeds and young sprouts of various trees. Like 

 station #1 the floor of these woods was v/ell shaded 

 in the suramer.In this region the epiphytic polypody 



Figa 

 A view of Station #2 showing the dense vegetation 

 covering the forest floor. 



was abundant though it occurred only on the bases 

 of the tree trunks .On a tree of Diospyros virp:iniarat 

 the fern was found growing on the northwest and norteast 

 sides up to about thirty centimeters from the ground 

 and forming six individual clumps. On TJlmus alata it 

 occurred also on the same exposures but only five 

 centimeters from the groiind; on one Liquidambar Styrac if lua 

 the polypody inhabited the east side of thercree as high 

 as forty centimeters above ground, vhile on another 

 individual of the same species it was found on the 



