Amprican Fern Journal 
No 4. 
Vol. 8 OCTOBER-DECEMBER, 1918 
The Fern Flora of Northeastern Iowa! 
T. J. FITZPATRICK 
The writer spent the months of June and July, 1895, 
in this portion of Iowa, camping and traveling along 
the Oneota or Upper Iowa and the Mississippi rivers. 
While all available botanical specimens were collected, 
special attention was given to the ferns, and a good 
representation was secured. In the following year Mr. 
Herbert Goddard, then a resident of Decorah, Winne- 
shiek County, sent the writer a collection he had secured 
in the vicinity of his home. During the years from 
1899 to 1902 the writer had a valued correspondent, 
Mr. Ellison Orr, who resided at Waukon, Allamakee 
County. Mr. Orr’s fine specimens were accompanied 
by many valuable critical notes. From these sources 
of information the following article has been written. 
This portion of Iowa possesses for lowans a peculiarly 
quiet scenic beauty, being the most broken or rolling, 
and the most wooded of any portion of the State. Iowa 
as a whole is a broad expanse of gently undulating 
prairie, with the characteristic flora modified by eivili- 
zation. In northeastern Iowa there are more high hille, 
rugged cliffs, deep ravines, perennial springs, piny 
woods, and rapid flowing streams than are to be 
found in any other region of the same size in the State. 
Being the least affected by cultivation, many natural 
Park sites are available, some of which are destined 
to be utilized in the near future. 
8 ene from the Department of Botany, University of N' ebraska, 
P 8, 
['No. 3 of the JouRNAL (S: 65-96, Plate 4) was issued October 8, 1918.] 
