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feet above sealevel, though the Shawangunk range rises 
to an altitude of approximately 2,100 feet. 
The species has been collected in Maryland,? and to 
the south it ranges as far as Georgia and westward as far 
as Arkansas and Missouri. Dr. Small® gives its range 
from ‘‘New York to Illinois and Missouri; south to mid- _ 
dle Georgia, Alabama, and Arkansas.” In Georgia there 
is a record for Stone mountain, 1,000 feet, Small,7,8 and 
Roland M, Harper,’ in his fern flora of the state, men- 
_ tions that there are “various stations,” all in the moun- 
tains. Dr. Chas. Mohr,3 in his Plant Life of Alabama, 
also refers the species to the mountain region, and records 
one station at an altitude of 1,600 feet and another at 
_ 2,200 feet. ‘The article by Dr. E. L. Lee, of Bridgeport, — 
- A in the Fern Bulletin for April 1909, on the oceur-— 
spt | interest, particularly his notes on habitat. 
we may judge from these and other records, Brad 
eee 8 a 
e southward, ‘appears to keep close to the — : 
sine, often i in the South at high altitudes. Its — 
ce an elevation of 1,500 feet as far north a8 
