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Hump, and Mt. Zion. I have been fortunate enough to 
see this fern growing at Mt. Mansfield and Mt. Zion. 
This latter station, discovered in 1898 by Mr. G. H. 
Ross of Rutland, is most interesting. The station has 
been visited but three times since its discovery, first by 
Mr. Ross and Mr. Eggleston, second by Mr. Ross and 
Mr. Kirk, and in 1911 by Mr. Kirk and myself. One 
day i in the early fall of 1911 Mr. Kirk and I tramped to 
the station from the electric car line in Castleton. As 
Mt. Zion is only a small hill of an elevation of about 1,000 
_ feet and as other adjacent hills are similar in height and in 
_ @ppearance, it is not easy to locate the station. We 
_ discovered what we supposed to be the location and 
_ examined it closely several times, but not a single speci- 
= men of the fragrant: fern did we find. 
with a bay Pee and here - was our »,  ieeined 
f = e sheer face of a cliff fifty to seventy-five — 
Most of the plants grew on the east, 
: In all, there 
a , perhaps, seventy-five plants, most of which, for- 
tunately for botanists o 
e boyeetioondie were very large and - 
: piste of whieh _ half were . 
