AMERICAN FERN JOURNAL 7 
POLYPODIUM VULGARE IN MAINE 
HENRY W. MERRILL 
Maine with its 3,000 miles of rock-bound coast, its 
many mountains and almost numberless hills, the out- 
° — ledges that show their granite heads so un- 
expectedly above its many plains, is an ideal home for 
the hardy little polypody, that carpets the top of most — 
of the — or c eaeet Lene over onal bunks, or 
— ‘dothe ve cat with a ‘soft mantle, ‘which it ne 
time deeays and furnishes the rich eoil needful for ate 
: development of plant life. ee 
A writer in speaking of ah OS wulgare (L. ) tated | 
that it is not ordinarily a variable fern and that bond 
a few forms have been named. 
In a British work, ‘Choice fous” : shee 
a. Bie: named forms. Although the old ‘world. gn be 
_ favored with more forms than the new world,—or it 
may be Saas: our brother botanist across the water is 
a 
