74 AMERICAN FERN JOURNAL 
have found a number of fronds with the upper part 
divided, one had two divisions down the top more than 
an inch deep. 
In one place I found a small colony of plants which 
seemed to be a separate variety. It was much more 
finely cut, there being as much difference between it and 
the type as there is between Dryopteris spinulosa and the 
fine cut variety D. spinulosa var. Concordiana. This 
colony of about a dozen plants was isolated from the 
other coarser plants, showing it was reproducing itself, 
or else it was the rocks on which it grew that caused 
the plants to produce fronds of a finer cutting. There 
are many variations among Alabama ferns which some 
would class as new ferns. Very unfortunate for this 
little fern, having grown in Alabama where few fern 
students live, for had it grown in the New England 
states where most of those versed in nomenclature 
live, it would no doubt be bearing a name all its own! 
ASPLENIUM RUTA-MURARIA L. Tennessee valley 
mountains and lower hills. Growing on exposed rocks. 
I found a large colony growing on limestone near the 
Tennessee river at Sheffield, Colbert Co. Though I 
never found it in Jackson Co., Dr. E. L. Lee of Bridge- 
port told me it grew across the river from Bridgeport 
at the foot of Sand Mt. I have specimens which he 
collected there. Mohr reports it from Winston, De- 
Kalb, and Etowah Co., and I believe also from Bibb 
Co 
ASPLENIUM ACROSTICHOIDES Sw. This fern I have 
never found growing in the State, but Mohr reports 
that Dr. Underwood found it in Winston Co. 
ASPLENIUM ANGUSTIFOLIUM Michx. Mountain re- 
gion, quite rare. I have only found it in Bucks Pocket 
of Sauty Creek, Marshall Co. Mohr reports it from 
Winston Co, 
