THe Mate Fern In VERMONT 89 
are plentifully scattered along both sides of the road 
for a number of rods. The elevation is about 1500 
feet. 
Miss F. E. Corne discovered the fourth station in 
the southern part of Barnard in 1911. According to 
reports by Miss Corne and Mr. Rugg, who has visited 
the station, there are forty or fifty plants on a southeast 
slope at an elevation of 1700 feet or more, and shaded 
by butternut trees. ; 
These four discoveries were made in adjacent towns 
of Windsor County. But in October, 1913, Mr. D. L. 
Dutton and Mr. George Kirk found a number of plants 
in Brandon; thus locating it west of the Green Mountain 
Tange in Rutland County. The Brandon station has 
an elevation of only about 1000 feet, but it is in a cold 
ravine with Dryopteris dilatata. The rock is limestone. 
This familiar wayside fern of the Old World is con- 
fined in eastern North America to the higher latitudes 
and apparently comes to the southern limit of its range 
in Vermont as a sub-alpine species, thriving best in the 
high pastures and thickets, and when it escapes to lower 
altitudes choosing cool situations. To the fact that it 
does occasionally migrate to lower levels, and to the 
More important fact that amateur botanists have within 
recent years come to give particular attention to ferns 
Wwe owe its early discovery in Windsor County. 
The discoveries above described have been made by 
accident or in the course of general botanizing, but when 
the Male Fern is hunted for with its particular habits 
'n mind it seems fairly certain that extensive growths 
will be found in the higher hills of Woodstock or Bridge- 
water, whence the fern has spread to the known sta- 
tions. Also in the mountains just east of the Brandon 
Station, and in fact anywhere among the higher hills 
throughout the state, and throughout the length of the 
Province of Quebec, in the northern Adirondacks and 
