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perhaps in New Hampshire and northern Maine, it 
should be looked for with reasonable chance of success. 
It seems to have no very marked soil preference. Mr. 
Alexander Cowan, of Scotland, writes me regarding its 
habit in that country, “ZL. filiz-mas—grows equally well 
in different soils and in shade or sun,’ but later he adds, 
“if growing in shade they prefer light overhead—that is, 
Shaded only from the direct rays of the sun.” This 
describes very well the habit of the fern in Vermont. 
The hybrid D. fitix-mas x marginalis has been found in 
three of the earlier Vermont stations for the Male Fern, 
and at Northfield it is very abundant. 
The ferns seen in Northfield and vicinity make a list 
of 34 species, including the Ophioglossaceae, and includ- 
ing Woodsia ilvensis, which Prof. Shaw has recently 
added to the list. Some of the more interesting are: 
Botrychium angustisegmentum and Asplenium Tricho- 
manes collected in the neighboring town of Roxbury; 
Ophioglossum vulgatum, abundant and varied in some of 
the wet pastures; Polystichum Braunii, in rich woods 
mostly below 2000 feet; Dryopteris Goldiana, very 
abundant in some localities and sometimes accompani 
by Athyrium: angustifolium. The Polypod was Been 
but once, on a ledge near the river shore. The hillside 
pastures are very wet and springy and the Ostrich Fem 
grows well up to the 2000 foot line. 
AUBURNDALE, Mass. 
Notes and News 
CONCERNING PoLYsTICHUM ACROSTICHOIDES, FORMA 
LANCEOLATUM. The other day, in looking over a file of 
th e Fern Bulletin, I came across Prof. Clute’s desetiP- 
oe. of this form (in Vol. 20, p. 24) and was at or 
reminded of a queer Christmas fern which I had fo 
in Bloomfield, Conn., in 1908. My specimens have a 
