Burnham: Bra un's Holly Fern 3 



along "the mountain brook which comes down the 

 north side of Greylock"* The 29th of May 1910, I 

 found a few scattering plants of the fern along the stream 

 in the "Heart of the Greylock," low down, not far 

 from the old Goodale house. I believe Mt. Greylock 

 still remains the only station for this fine fern in Mas- 

 sachusetts. 



Mrs. Elizabeth Watrous of New York City dis- 

 covered this beautiful fern, about 15th of June 1904, 

 near her summer home at Hague, Lake George, in a 

 wild rocky ravine called Hosie Gulch, where it grows in 

 company with large plants of Goldie's Fern, Dryopteris 

 Goldiana (Hook.) A. Gray. This information she com- 

 municated to Dr. Chas. H. Peck, State Botanist. The 

 16th of July 1907, Mrs. Watrous presented two or three 

 fine specimens to the New York State Herbarium at 

 Vlbany. The altitude of this cool ravine is about 1000 

 feet; or 700 feet above the Lake. Prof. Kemp's station 

 is not many miles distant from Hosie Gulch, and on the 



same mountain range. 



Two other sheets are preserved in the State Her- 

 barium at Albany. A large specimen from the Cats- 

 kills collected by Chas. H. Peck; also a sheet of small 

 plants from the Catskills collected by Peck. 



I believe the first printed record of this fern occuring 

 in New York State is in Dr. John Torrey's N. Y. State 

 Flora, f It is called Aspidium aculeatum Swart z. 

 Prickly Shield Fern. "Mountains of Essex county 

 (Dr. W. F. Macrae)." Dr. Torrey says, "I was not so 



fortunate to find this interesting fern when I explored 

 the Essex mountains; neither was it detected by Dr. 

 Knieskero, in his subsequent visit to that region. My 

 specimens are from the Gr<rn Mountains of Vermont 



*Rhodora 6: 203. Oct. 1904. 



t Flora of the State of New York 2: 298. 1843. 



