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ago by Dr. W. F. Macrae, but until the present season, 

 had not since been found there. In a recent botanical 

 tour I detected it in two localities; one in the ravine 

 below Rainbow Falls, near the outlet of Lower Ausable 

 Lake, the other at the base of Bartlett Mt. Probably 

 it occurs in other places east of Ml. Marcy and in the 

 ravines of the Gothics."* 



" Aspidium aculeatnm var. Braunii Koch. Abundant 

 in the 'Deep Notch 7 between Shandaken and Lexing- 

 ton. Eighteen species of ferns were observed in this 

 locality, all except three of which had previously been 

 noticed in 'Stony Clove/ a locality similar to this and 

 but a few miles south of it. The three species are Wood- 

 sia obtusa, Asplenium Tricho/ttanes and Osmunda cin- 

 namomea. These two localities together produce one- 

 half the whole number of ferns that occur in the State, "f 



"Aspidium actdeatum Sw., v. Braunii Koch. This 

 beautiful fern proves to be more common than was at 

 first supposed. I have observed it in three new lo- 

 calities the past season. Near Summit, Schoharie 

 county; near Griffins, Delaware county; and in the 

 Catskill Mountains, near Big Indian/'t 



Prof. B. D. Gilbert in his "Fern Flora of New York" 

 speaks of a specimen of this fern from "Ilion ravine, 

 Rev. H. N. Simmons in herb. Gilbert."** 



Mrs. Frances Theodora Parsons in "How to Know 

 the Ferns" says that this fern has been found in Oswego 

 county, N. Y. 



Hudson Falls, N. Y. 



N. Y. State Mus. Rept. 25: 107-108. 1873. 

 t N. Y. State Mus. Rept. 26: 89. 1874. 

 tN. Y. State Mus. Rept. 31: 53. $879. 

 **Fern Bulletin 11: 102. Oct, 1903. 



