56 AMERICAN FERN JOURNAL 
The var. LATIFOLIUM Bab. with broad fronds, has been 
found about Lake George; southern W. Fort Ann; Crescent 
and elsewhere. 
ADIANTUM PEDATUM L. 
Rich moist woods and shaded banks; common. 
July—Oct. 
Young plants, collected in Devines woods, Vaughns, 
June 12, 1897, had broad triangular pinnules suggestive 
of A. Capillus-V eneris. 
PTERIDIUM AQUILINUM (L.) Kuhn 
Dry fields and thickets, usually in sandy or gravelly 
soil; common. 
A tall fern sometimes forming bracken thickets on 
open hillsides. The pinnules are sometimes distorted 
by the fungus Phyllachora Pteridis. 
CrypToGRaMMaA STELLERI (Gmel.) Prantl 
Shaded limestone cliffs; rare. June—Aug. 
Near Whitehall (Dr. Beck). Torrey’s N. Y. State 
Flora 2: 487. 1843. These specimens were preserved in 
an old collection at State Herbarium. Silver Bay (Kemp); 
waterfall on south shore of South Bay; Pinnacle, Fort 
Ann mountains; Haynes hill, Vaughns; limestone ledge 
144 miles north of Smiths Basin, east of old Champlain 
canal, May 12, 1904. This station has probably been 
destroyed in building the barge canal. 
PELLAEA ATROPURPURBA (L.) Link 
Dry limestone rocks ; very rare. 
Dr. M. W. Vandenburg during the seventies found 4 
few plants on the cliffs on the south bank of the Hudson 
river near Glens Falls, where in recent years much rock 
has been removed: Silver Bay (Kemp), 1902; Dresden 
(Peck); three plants on the granitic talus at the base of is 
