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628a. While this form is not at all common, I found 
some dozen or fifteen fronds in the course of a half 
hour’s Search, growing with the species. 
Gero. L. Moxey. 
On June 30, 1918, while climbing Mt. Cushman 
in the town of Rochester,. Vermont, I came across 
Plants of Aspidiym Filiz-mas (L.) Sw. at an elevation 
of about 2400 fect. These plants were along an old 
roadway which leads from the Randolph divide road 
to the bare part of the summit of Cushman. But a 
few rods away was growing Aspidium spinulosum var. 
dilatatum (Hoffm.) Hook. forma anadenium Robinson. 
The Filix-mas was growing in partial shade. 
H. G. Ruae. 
American Fern Society 
Mr - Rayna] Dodge, known to the fern students as the 
discoverer of Dryopteris simulata and of the hybrid char- 
acter of D, cristata x marginalis, died at his home in New- 
buryport, Mass,, October 21, 1918. 
Mr. Dodge was born in Newburyport September 9, 
1844, © Served in the Civil War, enlisting, at the.age of 
eighteen, ‘na Massachusetts regiment and serving in the 
expedition to New Orleans and at the siege of Port Hud- 
son. For many years he had been employed as a mach- 
Inist IN &@ Comb factory at Newburyport, and had shown 
no little bility in designing and constructing mechanical 
devices. 
Mr. Dodge's interest in natural history was life-long. 
peers his military service he devoted such time as 
..- "mand to observations on the flora and fauna 
of Louisiana, O, his return home he set earnestly to work 
to prepare himself for serious scientific study. With little 
