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Vol.4 JANUARY-APRIL, 1914 No. 1 



Braun's Holly Fern 



BY STEWART H. BURNHAM. 



The following records of this beautiful fern are in 

 part gathered from printed notes which are not avail- 

 able to the majority of fern students. My first pressed 

 specimen of Polystichum Braunii (Spenner) Fee for my 

 herbarium was secured from Rev. Jas. A. Bates, col- 

 lected at Baintree, Vt., September, 1895. Mr. J. C. 

 Buchheister, of New York City, afterwards sent m< 

 specimens which he collected 30 July 1899, in a wild 

 stony, but at same time, moist woods on Belle Ayr 

 Mt., Ulster county, in the Catskill mountains at an 



altitude of 2500 to 3000 feet. 



It was not until the fall of 1902, that I was aware 

 that it grew near the shor< 3 of Lake George. One 

 evening while calling at the home of Prof. J. F. Kemp, 

 of Columbia University, who had been doing field work 

 in geology during the summer in the vicinity of Silver 

 Hay, Prof. Kemp laid out on the floor a magnificent 

 complete pressed specimen with fronds two feet long, 

 which he had collected on the talus in the Ice George 

 north-west of Silver Bay at an altitude of about 1500 

 feet. This fine specimen is preserved in my herbar- 

 ium. Prof. Kemp said the fern was not common in 

 this cool ravine, where ice may be obtained from be- 

 neath the rocks until late in the summer. 



I first saw and collected the plant at the twelfth an- 

 nual field meeting of the Vermont Botanical Club on 



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