118 AMERICAN FERN JOURNAL 
looking for. These finds I always consider the best one 
can make. 
It was on July fourth, 1916, while out on a botanizing 
trip, that I passed through some moist, shaded woods 
near Finland, Bucks Co. Between two large rocks I 
first found this pretty little plant. It was such a pleasant 
surprise that I at first thought it could not be possible. 
I hesitated for a while before I touched a plant. I 
counted them before I dug any up; there were just 
seventy-five on a circular piece of ground about three 
feet in diameter. Not only did I find them in this spot, 
but over the whole of this five acre piece of woodland. 
Since then I have been visiting the place every year and 
always find a good supply waiting to weleome my coming. 
I have been told that Mr. Witmer Stone, Curator at 
the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, while 
on a trip to Finland two years ago, was passing through 
a meadow about a mile from my patch of woods and, 
picking up a handful of grass, he found that he had also 
unknowingly picked a few plants of Ophioglossum. 
So you need not fear disappointment if you go to Finland 
for this plant, as it seems to be growing in almost any 
moist meadow or woodland there. 
In July, 1919, while on a trip with Rev. Brendle 
of Greenlane and Dr. Kline of Collegeville, Pa., we passed 
through a wet meadow about one mile south of Zieglers- 
ville in Montgomery Co. Our trip was for nothing in 
particular, only for what we could find. Here Mr. 
Brendle made his hit for the day—he found his first 
plant of Ophioglossum. This made him feel so glad he 
almost forgot that the next day was Sunday. A further 
search proved that the plant is growing over the whole 
of this meadow, about five acres. 
The greatest find of this fern was made in the same 
year by Mr. Brendle and myself while on a botanizing 
trip in the great meadows east of Sumneytown, Mont- 
gomery Co. These wet meadows are on an average 
