14 AMERICAN FERN JOURNAL 
OPHIOGLOSsUM VULGATUM L., Adder’s-tongue. 
Rev. J. M. Bates, in The Fern Bulletin, vol. 20, p. 67, 
July, 1912, reports finding a colony of this species in 
Cherry county, along Snake creek, Kennedy township, 
forty miles southwest of Valentine, the county seat. 
No specimens are at hand. 
OSMUNDACEAE 
OSMUNDA REGALIs L, Royal fern. Flowering fern. 
FRANKLIN counrTy: in original prairie in Republican 
river valley, near Franklin, May 5, 1896, no. 6776; also 
one and one-half miles southwest of Franklin, near Ashby 
mill and on low ground near the river, June, 1896, no. 
4693, both specimens collected by E. M. Hussong. 
OsMUNDA CLaYyToNIaNna IL. 
One specimen, no. 7516, without definite locality, and 
doubtfully referred to Nebraska. 
POLYPODIACEAE 
ADIANTUM PEDATUM L.. Maidenhair. 
This species is frequent to common in rich woods, 
especially in the southeastern quarter of Nebraska, the 
region of the state having the greatest rainfall. 
Dovcéias county: June 29, 1875, Samuel Aughey: 
woods, south of Omaha, June 25, 1873, William Cleburne; 
Florence, October 3, 1908, N. F. Petersen. 
SARPY couNTY: Bellevue, September 2, 1893, no. 
3146, Roscoe Pound & D. A. Saunders; south of Albright, 
September 1, 1908, F. G. Ernst. 
Cass county: Plattsmouth, woods of the Missouri 
river bluffs, May 15, 1886, no. 6127, H. J. Webber. 
NEMEHA CouNTY: Nemeha, July 5, 1910, no. 5145; 
Rev. J. M. Bates; also reported from the vicinity of 
Peru by Bessey & Webber. 
RICHARDSON couNTY: wooded bluffs of the Missouri 
river, common, August 26, 1889, no. 6129, H. J. Webber. 
