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American Fern Journal 



(where the plant was first found in America, by Pursh), 

 and the White Mountains of New Hampshire; the for- 

 mer kindly communicated by Dr. W. F. Macrae, the 

 latter by Mr. Tuckerman; both presenting an exact 

 resemblance to the European A. aculeatum." 



During the year 1869, Dr. Chas. H. Peck collected 

 this fern in the Catskills.* " Aspidium aculeatum v. 

 Braunii Koch. Stony Clove, Catskill mountains. Dis- 

 covered there by J. H. Redfield. This locality is evi- 

 dently very favorable to the growth of ferns. In July 

 last, the following nineteen species were observed while 

 passing along the road, about the distance of half a 

 mile, and in no case going more than four rods from it: 



Polypodium vulgare L. 

 Adiantum pedatum L. 

 Pteris aquilina L. 



Asplenium thelypteroides Mx. 

 A. 



Aspidium spinulosum Swartz 

 A . marginale Swartz . 



A. 

 A. 



acrostichoides Swartz 

 aculeatum Swartz. 



filix-foemixa Bernh. Struthiopteris germanica Willd. 

 Phegopteris polypodioides Fee. Onoclea a <ibilis L. 



P. 



(Iryopteris Fee. 



Cystopteris bulbifera Bernh. 

 C. fragilis Bernh. 



Aspidium thelypteris Swartz. 



Woodsia ilrensis R. Br. 

 Dicksonia punctilobida Kze. 

 Botrychium virginicum Swartz 



' The whole number of species now known to belong 

 to the State is forty-four, excluding the doubtful in- 

 habitant Lygodium palmatum. It will thus be seen that 

 nearly half our species occur in the Stony Clove." Not 



Miss 



t 



^..mumg rtrn in Greene county.] 



Dr. Peck, in his Remarks and Observations on New 



York State plants, speaking of his fern, says: 

 ''Aspidium aculeatum Swartz. This very rare fern 



was reported from the Adirondack Mts., many year 



* N. V. State Mua Rept, 24: 101. 1872. 

 T«. Y. .State Mas. Rept 28: 84. IS76. 



