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Mt. Mansfield. It was pointed out to me near the wagon 

 road, the 4th of July 1906, during the ascent of the 

 mountain in a rain-storm; and was said to be the only 

 locality near the road outside of Smugglers Notch. 

 The following day I collected a few plants near the 

 spring in Smugglers Notch; and dug up three or four 

 plants to transplant in my wild garden; these plants 

 lived for about five years but finally succumbed to the 

 effects of too strong light and droughts. It was said 

 not to be as abundant here as formerly; before a van- 

 dal florist dug up and carried off barrels of fern roots 

 to sell. This is said to be the type station for this 

 fern in America, being found here by Frederick Pursh 

 in 1807. It grew in rich shaded soil; but plants were 

 seen along the base of the upper cliffs and also in rock 

 crevices. In my herbarium there is a specimen from 

 this locality, Stowe, Yt., August 1864— collector un- 

 known. 



The 14th of June 1907, in company with Frank 

 Dobbin, of Shushan, N. Y., we climbed Mt. Equinox, 

 near Manchester, Vt. Descending the mountain \v< s- 

 ward through Corbett's Hollow on the Sandgate side, 

 we found three plants of Braun's Holly Fern near the 

 lower end of the ravine. Previous to this but one speci- 

 men of this fern had been recorded as growing on the 

 mountain, collected at the ninth annual field meeting 

 of the Vermont Botanical Club, 4th of July 1903, as 

 the party were descending the steep eastern slope of 

 the mountain to Manchester.* 



The 10th of October 1909, I lvv one fine plant of 

 this fern on Mt. Greylock, Mass., low down in the 

 Inner Hopper" along the stream. Previous to this 

 Ralph Hoffmann, in August 1904, found several plants 

 of Aspidium aculeatum Swart*., var. Braunii Koch 



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*Rhodora 5:236. Sept. 1003. 



