78 AMERICAN FERN JOURNAL 
New stations for Dryopteris Goldiana « margi- 
nalis in Vermont 
EZRA BRAINERD 
When Dr. Philip Dowell published his account of a 
hybrid between Dryopteris Goldiana and D. marginalis, in 
1908,* the plant was known from one station only, near 
Newton, N.J., collected July 4, 1907. When I read his 
paper I called to mind a locality in the Green Mountains 
where both these species grew in great profusion, anarrow 
wooded ravine with steep rocky slopes rising about 400 — 
feet for a distance of one or two miles on either side. 
_Among the broken rocks at the base of the valley ran — 
a small cold brook, with occasional small patches of — 
alluvium and leafmold. It occurred to me that if these — 
two species of Dryopteris hybridized, the hybrid should 
be found there; and the finding of it, of set purpose, 
more than two hundred miles from the only known sta- 
tion, would not only be a Pleasure i in itself, but a strong 
4 confirmation of its hybrid ori 
— Aeco y, on July 16, 1909, I visited the station: 
The weather was fair in the morning; but during a drive 
_ of nine miles, a row of one mile, and a walk of three miles 
to an altitude of 1,250 feet, ‘the clouds had gathered ; 
2 and when I reached the station a gentle rain set in that 
a Promised to Tast_ through me lapse In spite © 
be oe : * than LUA ail . hour’s seare. 
o I found a plant t of the hybrid, which afforded two 
fronds for dried pecs ond fine rootstock 
, : — ; garden. — 
ee B tit turned out. that is was. oe the first to collect h 
lant in Vermont. Mr. Harold G. ou 
