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POLYPODIACEAE. 



[ASPIDIUM SPINULOSUM Sw., var. DILATATUM (Hoffm.) Hook. The 

 record of this fern for Sable Island is based on a communication from 

 H. T. Gussow, but he writes that the plant was in " too fragmentary 

 a condition to be placed in the Herbarium." The determination of 

 this plant cannot now be verified.] 



Polypodium vulgare L. Known only from one collection, on the 

 old land at Island Pond, very rare, J. Macoun (C. no. 22,695). 

 Spores mature, late July. 



OSMUNDACEAE. 



Osmunda cinnamomea L. Local, but abundant by the marshy 

 shores of the fresh ponds at the eastern end of Wallace Lake, near 

 Life Saving Station No. 3. Collected by J. Macoun; H. T. Gus- 

 sow; H. St. John, no. 1,108 (H). 



LYCOPODIACEAE. 



Lycopodium inundatum L. Somewhat general in the wet dune 

 hollows. J. Macoun; H. T. Gussow; H. St. John, nos. 1,109 and 

 1,110 (H). 



Spores mature, September. 



PINACEAE. 



PINUS MONTANA Mill. Six trees planted near Life Saving Station 

 No. 3, in a grassy dune hollow have survived from the five thousand 

 set out in 1901, but they are not over two feet in height, and are 

 hidden by a luxuriant growth of Ammophila. H. St. John, no. 1,111 



(H). 



P SYLVESTRIS L. A few trees out of the ten thousand planted in 

 1901 near Life Saving Station No. 4, are still living but they are 

 overtopped by the Ammophila. H. St. John, no. 1,112 (H). 



PICEA CANADENSIS (Mill.) B. S. P. One tree surviving at Life 

 Saving Station, No. 4, from the planting in 1901 of 2,500 young trees. 

 H. St. John, no. 1,113 (H). 



[JUNIPERUS COMMUNIS recorded by J. Macoun (M. p. 216A) is 

 probably of the var. megistocarpa.] 



