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not longer than six or eight inches. At Mt. Pisgah Mr. 
Winslow was successful in finding the largest specimens 
I have ever seen of W. alpina. The largest frond he 
collected was eight inches long. Mr. George Lawson, 
in the Canadian Naturalist for 1864, speaks of the large 
specimens, often nine inches in length, which were col- 
lected in the Gaspé region, and suggests that the larger 
plant be distinguished as var. Belli. Another interest- 
ing Quechee Gulf fern is Cryptogramma Stelleri (Gmel.) 
Prantl. This is fairly abundant throughout Vermont 
in cool on © exposures, yet it is rare ako to side the 
Dnicis for posterity. y 
_ Woodwardia areolata (L.) Route has: never eae re- 
ported from Vermont, but its kin, W. virginica (L.) Sm., 
has been found in three widely distributed stations, 
Franklin, Colchester, and Rutland. I see no reason why - 
the fern enthusiast should not add other Vermont sta- 
tions for this fern, which I have seen growing omy na 
Colchester, at a bog known as Woodwardia warsie: Boe | to ae 
_ Dennstaedtia punctilobula (Michx.) } Seat is . common ao 
Tocky pastures and roadside wastes, opted er’ ae 
