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not known to range west of Lake Superior. Windsor, N.S. {How.') 

 Halifax, N.S. (Lindsay.} Mount Dalhousie, N.S. (McKay.) Strait 

 of Canso ; Boylston, Guysborough Co. ; and Eawdon, Hants Co. ; 

 N.S. (Ball.} Eavine at Whyoocogmah, Cape Breton. (Macoun & 

 Burgess.} Wentworth Station, Cumberland Co., and North Moun- 

 tains, King's Co., N.S. ; near Grand Falls and at Woodstock, N.B. 

 (Jack.} Bass Eiver, N.B. (Fowler.} Fredericton, N.B. (Vroom.} 

 Salmon Eiver, Victoria Co., N.B. (Hay.) Quebec, Que. (Sheppard.) 

 Isle of Orleans and Ste. Eose, Laval Co., Que. (St. Gyr.} Montreal, 

 Lennoxville, and in Argenteuil Co., Que. (McGord.) Eichmond and 

 Drummond Co's, Que. (Bothwell.) Very common in South-western 

 Ontario. (Macoun, Logie, Burgess, &c.) Along the Canadian Pacific 

 Eailway, north of Lakes Huron and Superior, Ont. (Fletcher.} 

 Current Eiver, Lake Superior, Ont. (Macoun.} 



(2995.) A. Filix-foemina, Bernh., Schrad. N. Journ. Bot., ii., 26 and 

 48. Provancher, Fl. Can., 716. Macoun & Burgess, Trans. Eoy. 

 Soc. Can., ii., sect, iv., 194. 



Athyrium Filix-fcemina, Roth, Tent. Fl. Germ., ii., 65. Hook., Fl. Bor.- 

 Am., ii., 262. Lawson, Can. Nat., i., 277 ; Fern Fl. Can., 238. Watt, 

 Can. Nat., iv., 363. 



Nephrodium Filix-foemina, Michx., Fl. Bor.-Am., ii., 268. 



Nephrodium asplenoides, Michx., Fl. Bor.-Am., ii., 263. 



Aspidium asplenoides, Swartz, Syn. Fil., 60. Pursh, Fl. Am. Sept., ii., 664. 



A very variable species which grows in tufts in moist fields and 

 woods. It is common in most parts of British America from the 

 Atlantic to the Pacific. Quite common throughout Nova Scotia. (Ball.) 

 A very common and variable fern in New Brunswick. (Fowler.) 

 Abundant in Prince Edward Island. (Bain.) Very common in Quebec 

 and Ontario. (Lawson, McCord, Macoun, Burgess, St. Cyr, &c.) Com- 

 mon in wooded parts of Manitoba and the North-West Territory, in 

 the Eocky Mountains, and in British Columbia. (Macoun.} Through- 

 out Canada to the Saskatchewan and alpine woods of the Eocky 

 Mountains. (Drummond.} 



Var. Michauxii, Mett., Asplenium, 199. 



Aspidium angustum, Willd., Sp. PL, V., 277. 



Athyrium Filix-foemina, Roth., var. /?., Hook., Fl. Bor.-Am., ii., 262. 

 Asplenium Filix-foemina, var. angustum, D. C. Eaton, Ferns of N. Am., ii., 

 277. Macoun & Burgess, Trans. Roy. Soc. Can., ii., sect, iv., 195. 



This is perhaps the most distinct of the many forms of this fern 

 which have been described, It is less common than the type, but not 



