66 AMERICAN FERN JOURNAL 
of the air, especially during the summer, and here we 
ind ferns. 
The northeastern corner of Asia (Chukches Land) is 
inhabited by three or four species of ferns, and from the 
opposite coast of Alaska Miss Alice Eastwood has enu- 
angie not a + few species collected near Be ome City, sui. 
which two | sieeins- are unknown slevwher: in nretle re- 
gions. The former is a rather common species north of 
the polar circle in the Scandinavian peninsula, but it 
does not occur north of the forests. The occurrence of 
the second in arctic America is very surprising. It is a 
Species of tropical relationship, which extends northward _ 
ay along the warm Pacific coast to British Columbia, and 
_ it is very strange that it should reach as far north as to — 
Nome City. I do not remember whether the record is” 
_ confirmed or not. 
eee regions arate Baffin Bay (Baffin Land, Elles 
_ mere Land, Grinnell Land on the west, and West Green- 
: ae on the east) are the headquarters of arctic ferns, 
and especially West Greenland possesses about the 
ae whole number of species. ‘The outer conditions are here 
on the other har id, the ‘passages between Baffin Ba, 
and the Arctic Basin are very narrow, and only small 
_ quantities of sea ice Age the: way through them to the 
