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Epwarps: NOTES ON THE GRAY POLYPODY 83 
Notes on the gray polypody 
STAFFORD C. EDWARDS 
During the past December, while roaming the woods 
and fields around Whiteville, N. C., one of the most notice- 
able objects of interest was a small polypody. The oft- 
met little fern proved to be the gray polypody, Polypo- 
dium polypodioides (L.) Hitch. The fall months had 
been very dry and the little fronds were considerably 
curled. Partly decaying logs seemed to be a favorable 
host, the running rootstocks clinging in the crevices of 
the bark and growing on the sawed ends of the logs as 
readily as a shelving fungus. The rails of an old fence 
were decorated with the same plants. On the village 
street a large deciduous tree supported on its bark a 
vigorous growth of the fern, from a point easily within 
reach to a distance up to the branching portion of the 
‘trunk. On the border of a large swamp this polypody — 
was found starting at the base of a large oak, climbing = 
the trunk on two sides and extending its rootstocks along a ae 
many of the branches, carrying the little upright gn 
fronds to the very tips of the topmost boughs, . sh to 
attract the attention of the most careless and t -arous 
the admiration of a materia : 7 
New BRIGHTON, N. ae 
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