70 AMERICAN FERN JOURNAL 
The pale tan to violet-tan fruit dots were coloring well 
by June 9, and the violet-brown to dark purple-brown 
spore cases ripened on the several fronds from June 14 
to June 30. In the crested fern, the fertile fronds are 
decidedly the first to appear, in spite of the fact that a 
few small sterile fronds occasionally appear with or 
even before the fertile ones; and the actual growth of 
sterile fronds does not begin until late in June or in July. 
Some of these sterile fronds are occasionally partly fertile. 
Goldie’s shield fern is very rare in this region, but I 
was fortunate in finding a fine colony in a mountain 
ravine and in August, 1911, I planted two of these ferns 
in a recess at the base of the rock pile in my fern garden. 
They grew well in their new home, the young ferns ap- 
pearing from April 26 to May 4. By about the 10th of 
June the indusia covering the flat sori are pale violet, 
later changing to straw color, and during the last week 
in June the spore cases have ripened and are light brown 
to rather dark brown in color. The new fronds appeal- 
ing during the latter half of June and in July are mostly 
sterile, but some of them are fertile on the upper portion. 
The New York fern does not flourish so well as it 
does in the habitat from which it was transplanted. 
In July, 1911, I planted two of these ferns, one on the 
fern bed and one close to the wall of the house. BY 
1913 the plant on the fern bed had died and in August, 
1914, I planted another one in its place. Although 
both of the planis are gradually establishing themselves, 
sending up each succeeding spring, about April 28, 2? 
Iereasing number of slender crosiers, the fronds have 
so far failed to attain the length to which they grow ™ 
the wild state. The first fronds, as a rule, are sterile, 
and usually a large percentage of the fronds grown dur- 
ing the season do not fruit. The fertile fronds begin t? 
appear about the third week in June and the shinimé 
dark brown to nearly black sporangia begin to ripe 
