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Fern Fiora or ALABAMA 79 
Montgomery Co., and was thriving in a good-sized 
colony. I found one plant growing in west Mobile, 
on Spring Hill Road, near Ashland Place. It was grow- 
ing in the side of a lawn under the shade of wild bushes, 
near a stone wall. I called at the residence asking if 
it had been purposely placed there, but the ladies told 
me they had been living there eight years and it was 
there when they came. They did not even know it 
was a fern. It was a large clump composed of several 
plants. Chickens had been scratching it and using it 
very hard, else other plants might have been produced 
by spores. 
DIcRANOPTERIS FLEXUOSA (Schrad.) Undw. One 
large plant of this fern was found by L. H. MeNeill a 
few years ago in the lower part of Mobile Co. growing 
in a railroad cut. It flourished for several years, and 
when Mr. A. H. Howell of the Biological Survey visited 
the place in 1917, he found it growing nicely, and took 
a photograph of it. At that time Mr. Howell sent me 
a part of a frond. The next year when I went to Mo- 
bile, I went in company with Dr. Van Aller to the site, 
but we found that a steam shovel had removed the soil 
from the place and had evidently carried it away with 
the soil to fill around a bridge. We searched every- 
where but could not find even a frond of the plant. The 
plant, though very large, had never produced any fruit- 
ing fronds. I fear it has disappeared from the State. 
I have searched since, but no trace was found of it. 
Lyaopium sapontcum (Thunb.) Sw. This climbing 
fern is apparently an escape in Mobile Co. Mr. Dukes 
found it growing along the creek near Fern Way in 
West Mobile. In putting in the concrete drain it must 
have been destroyed, as I could find no trace of it on 
my visit to the place. It grows in many of the lawns 
in the city. 
