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found, growing with the only plant of Asplenium an- 



ti folium 



Asplenium acrosti- 



choides, which seems to be not common in northern Ver- 

 mont, also grew with the last three species and was 

 found once at Williston. Among the limestone lovers 

 I was pleased to find Camptosorus rhizophyllus and 

 Pellaea atropurpurea var. Bushii Mackenzie at Ethen 

 Allen Park, Burlington. P. atropurpurea var. Bushii, 

 not before recorded from Vermont, but collected prob- 

 ably by Faxon at Burlington many years ago, should be 

 looked for elsewhere in the state. It differs in its very 

 smooth stipes and raches from the chaffy-hairy typical 

 forms. Camptosorus was seen on two or three occasions 

 afterward both in the Burlington region and at Swanton, 

 and true P. atropurpurea, with the other calciphiles, 

 Cystopteris bulbifera and the pretty little wall-rue 

 (Asplenium Rut a-mur aria), was collected on the lime- 

 stone ledges at Winooski forge. The three oak-ferns— 

 Phegopteris Dryopteris, P. hexagonoptera, and P. poly- 

 podioides—were found at or near E>sex Junetion, but 

 only P. polypod , <> i des at Swanton, where the rich woods 

 favored by these species are less common. 



In Rhodora, for September, 1913 (XV. 154-156), a 

 synopsis was given of the seven forms of the cinnamon 

 fern which seem worthy of distinction, the substance 

 of which may be repeated here. Typical 0. cinna- 

 momea, with rounded or subacutish entire pinnules, 

 crowded or subremote, ranges from Newfoundland to 

 Florida, west to Illinois and Louisiana, or probably 

 further. It includes forma angtuia Clute, which at 

 least as to the only authentic specimen seen seems a 

 mere state with somewhat revolute pinnules, not worthy 

 of separation. I have not infrequently found a similar 

 state in swampy spots where the trees had recently been 



felled. Var. ghnduloea Waters, which was retained as a 



variety rather than a forma out of deference to its some- 



