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Vermont, the fern lover’s paradise* 
HAROLD GODDARD RUGG 
For the person seeking a vacation resort in which he 
ean find good botanizing, especially in the line of pterido- 
phytes, I can recommend no better place than Vermont. 
Of the 109 species, varieties, and forms of these plants 
mentioned in Gray’s New Manual 74 have been reported 
from Vermont. Of these it has been my good fortune to 
- find all but thirteen. In addition to this number, al 
of the described hybrids except Dryopteris ce 
x spinulosa Benedict and D. cristata x Goldiana Bene- a 
dict have been reported in Vermont, and these two un- 
doubtedly oceur within the Vermont boundaries. | lng oS 
a season passes but what some new and inter | 
tanical find is reported from Vermont. ‘This last sun 
mer Miss F. E. Corne of Cambridge, } Mass. ., was fortuna 
in finding Dryopteris filiz-mas (L.) § 
in Barnard, Vermont, and also its 
ginalis (L.) A. Gray in the same pl 
station in Vermont, and in fact: in all 
- nade the male fern = the | ct 
