116 AMERICAN FERN JOURNAL 
On Saturday morning an early start was made for the 
shores of Farmington river, near Rainbow, under the 
guidance of Mr. C. H. Bissell and Mr. Bigelow. Other 
members of the party were Mrs. Orra P. Phelps, Miss : 
Annie Lorenz, H. G. Rugg, R. C. Benedict, J. Francis = 
Huss, and E. J. Winslow. The ground explored was a 
moist woodland along the river. Among the finds were 
a large number of plants of Botrychium lanceolatum, 
Lycopodium obscurum and the variety dendroideum grow- 
ing near together and with some intermediate forms, 2a _ 
form of L. complanatum with second year growths start- 
_ ing from the tips of the branches, L. inundatum, a number _ 
of plants of Dryopteris cristata < marginalis, and Cystop- — 
teris bulbijera. — 
_ The return to Hartford was Sede early enough for a 
visit to the fern garden on the Goodwin estate. This 
a garden i is one of the largest and finest in America and it 
a8 is hopeless to attempt to describe it in a brief paper. — 
There were all the species of ferns native to this part of — 
the country whose presence could add anything to the — 
beauty of the garden, including many rare forms and — 
hybrids, also a large number of foreign species, and all — 
the freak varieties of Athyrium filix femina about which | 
we read in descriptions of English ferneries. Many of 
| _ these species were to be seen in all stages of development ao 
. 
ever come aca the ‘experience of any of the 
, who has charge of the garden, said 
e found es oe near Hartford 
