A CRESTED FERN IN LANDSCAPE PLANTING 111 
any one station more than a single solitary crested 
plant. Asplenium Filix-femina has no creeping root- 
stock, being furnished with an upright or decumbent 
rhizome. From my experience with these plants, there- 
fore, it was natural to expect that if a crested form 
of Asplenium Filiz-femina was found, there would be 
one plant only. Consequently, the reported abundance 
of a crested fern from West Rock, supposedly this species, 
excited my curiosity, and when an opportunity pre- 
sented itself I visited the Park for the purpose of investi- 
gating. 
I entered at the southwest corner crossing West 
River and proceeded along a well-kept roadway bor- 
dered by a low second growth for the most part of 
native trees and shrubs. The margin of the roadway 
had evidently been cleared of all growth and replanted 
with shrubs, some of which were not native species. 
Proceeding a short distance, I found in this replanted 
strip a few plants of the crested form I was looking for 
and, after satisfying myself that the plant was in reality 
Asplenium Filix-femina, I proceeded to make a careful 
Search to determine its abundance. I found plants 
everywhere along this roadway but always singly, 
sometimes a foot or two apart and again ten feet or 
more away from each other. They were always in 
the replanted strip and never more than ten feet from 
the paved gutter of the graded roadbed. When I 
penetrated further from the road into the uncleared 
second growth I found plenty of plants of the usual 
tall, perfectly normal Asplenium Filix-femina, but none 
of the dwarf form. Walking slowly along the roadway 
for over half a mile I counted the plants observed until 
the figure reached more than two hundred. I con- 
tinued for about half a mile further and estimated I 
Saw some five hundred plants of the dwarf crested form 
in the total distance covered and there were many others 
