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(3011.) A. Boottii, Tuckerman, Hovey's Mag. of Hort.and Bot., ix., 

 145. Macoun & Burgess, Trans. Eoy. Soc. Can., ii., sect, iv., 208. 



A. spinulosum, var. Boottii, Gray, Man., Ed. ii., 598. 



A. cristatum, var. uliginosum, Milde, Fil. Eur. et Atlant., 131. 



Lastrea Boottii, Lawson, Fern Fl. Can., 241. 



Our recorded stations for this fern, which is found in swamps and 

 wet places in woods and thickets, are very few, but careful search 

 would probably prove it to be less rare. Bellahill, thirteen miles from 

 Halifax, and near Sackville Church, two and a half miles further up 

 the old Windsor Eoad, N.S. (Jack.} Low forest glade, Kemptville, 

 Ont. (Porter.) Swamp near the Grand Trunk Eailway Station at 

 Belleville, Ont., growing in the immediate vicinity of A. cristatum, var. 

 Clintonianwn and A. spinulosum. (Macoun.} Hamilton, Ont. (Logie.} 

 With A. cristatum, in a cedar swamp, London, Ont. (Burgess.) 



(3012.) A. fragrans, Swartz, Syn. Fil., 51. Hook., Fl. Bor.-Am., ii, 

 261. Macoun & Burgess, Trans. Eoy. Soc. Can., ii., sect, iv., 208. 



Polystichum fragrans, Ledeb., Fl. Boss., iv., 514. Watt, Can. Nat, iv., 363. 

 Nephrodium fragrans, Rich., App. Frankl. Journ., 753. Hook. & Baker, 



Syn. Fil., 275. 

 Lastrea fragrans, Presl, Tent. Pterid., 76. Lawson, Can. Nat, i., 283; 



Fern Fl. Can., 243. 



Found in the crevices of shaded cliffs, and on mossy rocks, especially 

 near cascades, from Nova Scotia to the Eocky Mountains and north- 

 ward to the Arctic Circle. Hartley Water-fall, Pirate Harbour, Strait 

 of Canso, N.S. (Ball.) Clefts of rocks at the Eailway Tunnel, Eesti- 

 gouche, N.B. (Fowler.) Dalhousie, KB. (Fletcher.} Saguenay Eiver, 

 Que. (Watt.) Hemmingford, Que. (Goode.} Perpendicular rocks 

 at the Falls of Ste. Anne des Monts Eiver, and along the Telegraph 

 Eoad, Gaspe", Que. ; Pic Island, and along cliffs on the shore of Thunder 

 Bay above that island, McKay's Mountain, Thunder Cape, and Eed 

 Eock Station, C. P. Ey., north shore of Lake Superior, Ont. ; very 

 abundant on trap rocks on the upper part of Nepigon Eiver and all 

 around Lake Nepigon, being the common fern in that region ; Dawson 

 Eoad, Ont. ; Peace Eiver Pass in the Eocky Mountains, above Hudson's 

 Hope in the Canyon, Lat 56 12'. (Macoun.} Crevices of rocks on 

 Moon Eiver, Muskoka, Ont. (Burgess.} East coast of Hudson Bay, 

 Cape Chudleigh and Cape Prince of Wales, Hudson Strait. (R. Bell.} 

 Eocks about Chipeywan, Athabasca District. (Traill.} Great Bear 

 Lake, N. W. Ter. (Hooker.} The Saskatchewan to the Arctic Sea 

 and Islands. (Richardson, Parry.} Francis Eiver, N.W.T. (-Dawson.} 



