52 AMERICAN FERN JOURNAL 
several rods, climbing over moss-covered rocks and 
fallen trees. I finally reached a pool of water at the 
foot of a gigantic rock on one side and a rocky cave on 
the other, with only a passage of a few feet between for 
the water coming down the ravine to pass through. 
Between the cave and the rock the water passed down 
a steep incline, striking a pile of loose rocks at the 
bottom, causing it to send a spray over the rock. 
On the lower corner it appeared a cube had been 
broken from the top of the rock, making a shady nook 
in which grew a dense colony of Polypodium vulgare 
and just below, on two sides of the rock, some two or 
three feet above the pool of water, grew several colonies 
of Trichomanes Petersii. I at first thought it was moss, 
but on closer examination I found it to be the rare fern. 
The accompanying photograph shows this rock with 
the writer standing in the gully beside it. The little 
Trichomanes is too small to be made out in the picture, 
but there is one colony just in front of my hand, a 
smaller colony lower down and back of my hand, and 
a larger colony on the face of the rock on the side toward 
the large tree, which covers a space perhaps two feet 
wide and four long, extending from the upper edge just 
under the Polypodium vulgare down nearly to the ground. 
At my feet is the pile of rocks against which the water 
strikes, making a spray which keeps the large rock damp. 
Very little water was running at the time of my visit- 
Trichomanes Petersii had been found only in Winston, 
Etowah and Marion Counties, but my find adds a fourth 
station for Alabama. 
Lone Isuanp, Awa. 
Through the courtesy of Dr. B. L. Robinson, of the Gray Her- 
barium, and the kindness of the artist, Miss Una L. Foster, the 
JouRNaL is able to present the accompanying detailed illustration 
of Trichomanes Petersii (Plate 3). All the drawings except Fig 1- 
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