80 AMERICAN FERN JOURNAL | 
OSMUNDA CINNAMOMEA L. Low damp woods through- 
out the State. The most abundant fern we have. In 
Mobile County there is a fall fruiting variety. It be- 
gins fruiting in September and produces fruiting fronds 
up to November. I believe the reason for the fall 
fruiting of this fern is the excessive rain in August, 
near the coast, which cause the plants to take a new 
start. New sterile fronds are produced also. I have 
never observed this fern fruiting in the fall in the north- 
ern part of the State, which does not receive excessive 
rains in August. 
OSMUNDA CINNAMOMEA FRONDOSA Gray. I found 
one plant in the northern part of Mobile Co. near Salco. 
This fern I found in April. In September I found a 
very peculiar variety. The sterile fronds were very 
narrow, the pinnae extending about one inch on each 
side of the rachis. The lobes of the pinnae were not 
entire but triangular in shape and serrate. One frond 
was composed of all fertile pinnae. Another frond 
was fertile in the middle, and sterile above and below. 
The lobes of the pinnae were serrate as in the other 
sterile fronds. I suppose if this fern had grown in New 
England it too would have carried a new name. 
OsMUNDA REGALIS L. Common throughout the 
State on the border of swamps. This fern too has the 
habit of fruiting in the fall, in the southern part of the 
State, but I have never found it fruiting in the fall in 
the northern part. 
LYCOPODIACEAE. 
LycopopIuM ALOPECUROIDES L. This Club Moss is 
frequently met with in the swamps throughout Mobile 
and Baldwin Counties. Mohr adds Washington Co. 
also. I have sometimes seen it in great masses on the 
border of a swamp. 
