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the Mate it is restrict 1 to this mass of mountains. 

 The writer discovered it first on cliffs just at the mouth 



of the canyon. Later it was found in many places inside 

 the canyon and on the rock slides higher up. It grows 

 usually in the shade of rocks, but in protected places it 

 thrives in moist gravelly soil. The plants vary greatly 

 in size, according to insolation and available moisture. 



Aspi.i.mim TricHOMANES L. A few plants were 



found in two localities, in both instances on moist shaded 

 cliffs. 



A i in mi m < v< LOSORi M Rupr. Nowhere else in New 

 Mexico, probably, is this fern -o abundant as here. It 

 reach-- the largest size of any fern in the State, some of 

 the fronds being over four feel long. On the upper 

 P. .. River, « -i of Santa Fe, in 1908, the writer, in 



thro n.ontl collecting, found only a single small 



clump of the plants. Here in BrasOS Canyon along the 

 si tall brooks they were everywhere, furnishing in some 



pi: Hi, most conspicuous element of the herbaceous 

 a getation. Gn i m res of the fronds, three to four 

 f, t high, intermingled with Rudbeckia laciniata, Aratia 



b\ . ate, and Aconitum, lined the hanks of the brooks, 



forming beautiful picture. The tall, heavily fruited 



fronds are found in the large clumps; small and probahly 



younger plants growing with them have short, r fronds, 



although these too an ft rtile. 



Asei.KNn m sEPnWTMONALB L. It was a pleasant 

 Surprise to come upon this peculiar little ^m even 

 though it was not new to the State flora. AMule it 

 has a wide rang, in the western United States and in 

 Europe, it appears to ha. a decidedly local distribution, 

 ,n America at leas,. In ,911, the writer found a few 



plants on 1 1 under side of a rock near the base of the 



