60 AMERICAN FERN JOURNAL 
paring the article on Willoughby Lake, etc., which ap- 
peared in Vol. 9, No. 4 of the Fern Journau. In the 
Fern Bulletin, Vol. 15, page 49, Mrs. Terry reports the 
finding in Dorset of Botrychium simplex and Pellaea 
atropurpurea. Therefore Pellaea should be added to 
the list of ferns growing in all four stations under con- 
sideration, making a list of 28 This gives Dorset 35 
true ferns, which equals the Willoughby list. It only 
remains for Mrs. Terry or some other Dorset botanist 
to discover Phegopteris hexagonoptera or the male fern 
to give that town the undisputed championship.—E. J. 
WINSLow. 
ANOTHER CHARACTER IN THE BEECH FEeRNs.—Living 
plants of Phegopteris heragonoptera and P. polypodioides, 
if one can keep them under obsrvation, are easily told 
apart. When the fronds of the Long Beech Fern die 
down in the autumn, or even for a short time previously, 
the coiled tops of the next year’s croziers, thickly cov- 
ered with brown scales, may be seen protruding a little 
above the ground. In the case of the Broad Beech 
fern, however, no traces of the next year’s fronds show 
above the ground either in the fall or early spring.. The 
Long Beech fern matures its fronds much earlier than 
the other. Around Sept. 1st in the vicinity of New- 
buryport fronds of hexagonoptera of a fine fresh green 
may be seen in various stages of unrolling. But at 
that time all the fronds of the other have turned to a 
dull, homely olive and no new fronds are to be seen. 
Even a long series of rains in July and August which will 
bring out a second crop of fronds on quite a number 
of the ferns, do not seem to have any effect on the Long 
Beech.—E. H. Ciarxson, Newburyport, Mass. 
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