FERNS OF THE LAKE GEoRGE FLoRA—IV 57 
Diameter, South Bay, July 31, 1893; Skenes Mt., 
Whitehall, Aug. 30, 1900, also found here Aug. 1911 by 
D. 8. Carpenter & F. T. Pember. 
POLYPODIUM VULGARE L. 
tocky woods and ledges; common, especially in 
mountain woods. 
Variable. Plants with fruiting fronds 114 inches 
high were met with in the dry old pasture on Wood- 
ruffs hill, west of Fort Ann, 1896. Along the road a 
mile west of Lake Sunnyside, 1908, plants were seen 
growing in sandy soil at the base of trees. In Devines 
woods, west of Kingsbury, 1899, plants were collected 
with long narrow thick fronds. Although this ever- 
green fern usually cushions limestone and _ granitic 
rocks, it is sometimes met with on the roots of trees. 
At Lake George C. L. Williams collected in 1909, 
and Mrs. 8. W. Russell in 1910 at Hillview, sterile 
plants of this species. “The fronds are 5-12 em. long, 
Y% em. broad, sinuate lobed or irregularly pinnatifid. 
the lobes being broad, obtuse and unequal.” N. Y, 
State Mus. Bull. 150:47. 1911. 
Forms with taper pointed fronds, often 3 inches 
wide, with nearly entire rather thin pinnae, with a few 
fruit dots were referred to var. angustum Muell. This 
form has been collected on Black Mt.; Fort Ann mount- 
ains; and southern W. Fort Ann. 
e var. Cuurcutan Gilbert was found by Miss 
Alice Church on the old well of Ft. George, Lake George, 
Sept. 1905. One plant was found and a type frond 
was preserved in the Gilbert herbarium. Fern Bull. 
14: 39-4], April 1906. 
Dr. Geo. D. Hulst, during the nineties, found at Dark 
Bay, Lake George, specimens of var. camBricuM (L.) 
Willd. under hemlock trees ; and the var. MULTIFIDUM 
Moore. “The tallest and least variable fronds simply 
