FERNS. 315 



County (T. M. Peters}, 1, 000 feet. Etowah County, Black Creek Falls, 1,000 feet. 

 Talladega County, Chandler's Springs. Tnscaloosa County (E. A. Smith). Clay 

 County, banks of Talladega Creek. Frequent in the rock houses of the Carboniferous 

 sandstone on the Warrior table-land. 



Type locality: "Hab. in Enropae fissuris rupium." 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



Asplenium aiigustifolium Michx. Fl. Bor. Am. 2 : 265. 1803. 



NARROW-LEAVED SPLEENWORT. 



Gray,Man. ed. 6, 685. Chap. Fl. 592. Eaton, Ferns N. A. 2 : 73, t. 56, f. 1-3. Under- 

 wood, Native Ferns, 10^. 



Alleghenian and Carolinian areas. Quebec, Ontario, New England, Ohio Valley 

 west to Michigan, Wisconsin, Missouri, Arkansas, and from Virginia along the moun- 

 tains to North Carolina. 



ALABAMA: Mountain region. Rich woods. Winston County, 1,500 feet ; rare. 



Type locality : " Hab. ad ripas fluininis Ohio." 



Asplenium bradleyi Eaton, Bull. Torr. Club, 4 : 11. 1873. 



BRADLEY'S SPLEENWORT. 



Gray, Man. ed. 6, 684. Chap. Fl. Suppl. 670. Eaton, Ferns N. A. 2 : 39, t. 51, J. 4-8. 

 Underwood, Native Ferns, 106. 



Carolinian area. Southern New York. Cumberland Mountains of Kentucky and 

 Tennessee. 



ALABAMA: Mountain region. Shaded rocks. Dekalb County, Lookout Mountain. 

 Sheltered shelves of rocks, banks of Little River, 1,600 feet. Clay County, Bald- 

 rock, 2,200 feet; small specimen, not well developed, July 31, 1896. 



Type locality: "Waldens Ridge, Cumberland Mountains, near Coal Creek, East 

 Tennessee." (F. H. Bradley, 1876.) 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



Asplenium montanum Willd. Sp. PL 5 : 342. 1810. MOUNTAIN SPLEENWORT. 



Gray, Man. ed. 6, 684. Chap. Fl. 592. Eaton, Kerns N. A. 2 : 41, t. 51, f. 11. Under- 

 wood, Native Ferns, 106. 



Alleghenian and Carolinian areas. New England, New York, New Jersey to 

 West Virginia and Kentucky, along the mountains to North Carolina and Georgia. 



ALABAMA: Tennessee Valley. Mountain region. Clefts of rocks. Winston 

 County (T. M. Peters). Dekalb County, Mentone, 1,600 feet. Lauderdale County, 

 near Florence. Marion County, Pikeville (E. A. Smith). Bibb County, Pratt's 

 Ferry (E. A. Smith), 500 feet. Not frequent. 



Type locality: " Hab. in altia montibus Carolinae." 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



Asplenium ruta-muraria L. Sp. PI. 2 : 1081. 1753. WALLRUE SPLEENWORT. 



Gray, Man. ed. 6, 684. Chap. Fl. 593. Eaton, Ferns N. A. 1:107, t. 15, f. 1. 

 Underwood, Native Ferns, 106. 



EUROPE, ASIA, NORTH AFRICA. 



Alleghenian and Carolinian areas. New England west to Michigan, Ohio, Ken- 

 tucky, and Arkansas; mountains of Georgia. 



ALABAMA : Tennessee Valley. Mountains and Lower hills. Exposed rocks. Win- 

 ston County, Colliers Creek, 1, 500 feet ( T. M. Peters). Dekalb County, Mentone, 1, 600 

 feet. Etowah County, Black Creek Falls. Colbert County (E. A. Smith). ' Bibb 

 County, Pratt's Ferry. 



Type locality : " Hab. in Europa ex rupium fissuris." 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



Asplenium filix-foemiiia (L.) Bernh. Schrad. Neues Journ. Bot. 1, pt. 2:26. 1806. 



LADY FERN. 



Polypodiiim JUix-foemina L. Sp. PL 2 : 1090. 1753. 



Gray, Man. ed. 6, 658. Chap. Fl. 593. Eaton, Ferns N. A. 2 : 225, t. 76. Coulter, 

 Contr. Nat. Herb. 2 : 566. Underwood, Native Ferns, 107. 



EUROPE, ASIA. 



Boreal region to Carolinian area. Nearly throughout the north temperate zone. 

 From Nova Scotia to British Columbia and Alaska, and from New England south to 

 Florida (Chapman), west to Texas, Arizona, and California. 



ALABAMA: Tennessee Valley to Central Pine belt. Shady woods. Winston 

 County. Madison County, Monte Sano. Talladega County, Chandler Springs. 

 Tuscaloosa County. Bibb County, Pratt's Ferry. Most frequent in the mountains. 



Type locality : "Habitat in Europae frigidioris subhuinidis." 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr, 



