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Lake region, that we were hurrying toward the best sta- 
tion for the Onondaga moonwort fern, where our friend 
hoped to collect a few choice specimens. The usual 
route by sheep paths and wood roads was too round 
about to suit our inclinations, so we decided to attempt 
a short cut, directly up the face of a cliff. 
It was hard climbing to the top of the talus, and the 
wall above was forbidding. 
__ A favorable spot for scaling the top was found, and as 
we were wriggling over the topmost layers of limestone, 
my friend called attention to a fringe of dead fronds 
hanging for a long distance along under the topmost 
rocks, which overhung the crevice by a foot or so. It 
_ was unmistakably slender cliffbrake, and a very promis- — 
i ing station for it, fully a mile cue the bebe reported 
_ station near Gees Pond. 
a The follo owin. season Ty was anxious to visit the station, 
and when I did hed from the top of the cliff. 
6 While the fern was located. in abundance, that original 
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