58 American Fern Journal 



Miss Kate Furbish, of Brunswick. This article sums 

 up their work, as well as my own. 



Polypodium vulgare L. is abundant in many places, 

 and seems to like granitic rocks especially* In general 

 the fronds are regular, but Mr. Jewell has found speci- 

 mens of var. auritum Willd. Phegopteris polypodioides 

 Fee is very common in moist open woods, while P. 

 Dryopteris (L.) Fee is more often found in deeper woods. 

 It was many years before I found the third species ol 

 the genus, P. hexagonoptera (Michx.) Fee. There are 

 only four stations for it even yet, two in Farmington 

 (H. W. Jewell), one in Chesterville (Miss Eaton), and 

 the fine large stand which I found in open woods in 

 Strong. It is decidedly a rare fern. Adiantum peda- 

 tum L. is very abundant in the rich humus of deciduous 

 woods, and I have seen it flourishing in clearings and 

 pastures where the woods have been removed. Pteris 

 aquilina L. is exceedingly common in pastures and dry 

 upland white birch woods. 



When I made my first botanical visit to Chesterville, 

 the southernmost town of the county, I invaded one 

 of the peat-bogs, and was surprised and delighted to 

 find a big fern growing there in abundance. Some of 

 the fronds were five feet tall. This proved to be Wood- 

 wardia virginica (L.) Sm., and I have since found one 

 more station for it, in the same town, at least sixty miles 

 back from the present coast line. 



Asplenium acrostichoides Sw. is very luxuriant in rich 

 deciduous woods, while A. filix-foemina (L.) Bernh. 

 flourishes in moist situations everywhere. A. Tricho- 

 manes L. is found only on moist ledges of Day Mt., 

 in Strong and Avon, above an altitude of 1,000 feet, 

 on the shaded side of the mountain. The specimens 

 here are numerous and well developed, the best I have 

 ever seen, some of the fronds at least 2.5 dm. in length. 

 It is ven different from the starveling specimens I 



