AMERICAN FERN JOURNAL 3 
NOTES ON THE BOTRYCHIA 
L. S&S. HOPKINS 
(With Plate J) 
The fern collector who is much in the woods and 
fields, sooner or later is certain to have the ecological 
peculiarities of the various species thrust upon him. 
One species grows upon limestone, another in a swamp, 
a third on wooded hillsides, ond so on cca asst = 
iy Gis we 1 flint called 16 4 ke leads of 
the botrychia by a faenid, Atty. KS. Webb, of Garretts-_ 
ville, Ohio, a very careful observer, who, under date of 
May 14, 1907, wrote: “The most interesting fact re- _ 
vealed by my studies of the botrychia is the remarkable 
elannishness of the species. They seem to love each 
_ other’s society and where one grows the others do eee 
_Botrychium lanceolatum (Gmel.) Angstr., Botrychium ae 
virginianum (L.) Sw., and Botrychium obliquum Muhl. | 
grow within a few feet or yards of the two stations that ag . 
ae know for Le ae Se ramosum sires ) Aschers. (J 
