12 : AMERICAN FERN JOURNAL 
two young men lost their lives while climbing it. How- 
ever this may be and while it is not as easy as the other 
_ trails in the park, yet if you are a fern lover and can 
only take one trail, take this. The reason for this ad- 
vice I will give later. 
_- Pellaea densa and P. Bridgesii were found along the 
trail: to Glacier Point. The last named one, like others 
of the genus, seems to delight in being choked or in 
: bone ep a very meager diet. Rocky cliffs with only 
seem to be its especial joy. This fern has 
eat. ‘The little pinnae are so brittle, nid 
re often so twisted out of natural shape 
ee task to get them into the press in 
shape. Mr. L. S. Hopkins had asked me to 
ragilis and to collect some for him : 
daien watching for the highest altitude. — 
confined to to altitudes between 2,500 and 
. : this trip I found it much higher, growing 
ove Gl. oint and up toward Sentinel ee at 
900 ft ae Senti inel Dome, where the wind is. 
