1s AMERICAN FERN JOURN 
of Devonshire Marsh and along the roadside in a few | 
places is Dryopteris patens (Sw.) Ktze. 
On a wall along the middle Devonshire road small 
plants of an Asplenium were found which Doctor Bene- 
dict calls A. trichomanes L. Certainly the plants seem 
exactly like those of our own species. At first I called 
_ them dwarfed or stunted plants of A. muticum Gilbert, 
for which I had been looking, but probably the true A. 
muticum is found only in the Walsingham tract. The 
_ fronds of this pretty fern as found in Walsingham, grow 
nearly erect, are ten or more inches long, and bear pinnae — 
more finely cut than those of our A. trichomanes. In 
__ erevices of rocks in this same Walsingham tract is found — 
= i = plumula HBK. and the rare nt 
8 heterophylla (L.) Diels, while a 
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