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upon another spot where there were many plants, but 
most of them were small. 
The trail led up over a ledge whose top overhung the 
water below. There we were rewarded by more dis- 
coveries. On the edge of the bank, above the rock, was 
a small station of the slender rock brake (Cryptograma 
Stelleri (Gmel.) Prantl). The fertile frond which we 
gathered was a very fine specimen. 
Close by was a tuft of small green stalked fronds, 
which we quickly saw was Woodsia glabella R. Br. Just 
there it was almost abundant and way up near the top 
of the cliffs we found, later, another fine group of these 
delicate plants. Those that we found in the Gulf were 
much smaller than the W. alpina. 
The time for our train was fast approaching so we 
clambered up the side of the Gulf, at this point quite 
accessible, and covered with hemlock and white birch 
trees. At the very top where the cliff was impassable 
and crumbling, overhanging the outcropping rock, was 
a large colony of the third of the Woodsias which we 
found that day, W. ilvensis (L.) R. Br. The fronds 
were not the commoner kind, erect, densely crowded 
and closely matted, such as we found in the pastures 
above the Gulf, but they were long and graceful as they 
hung down over the edge or along the sides of the rocks. 
They had however the distinctive characteristics of 
W. ilvensis, its chaffy rusty brown wool and the fine 
silvery hairs on the younger fronds. 
As we left on the train Mrs. Heselton told us that 
Pellaea atropurpurea had been identified on the far side 
of the Gulf, high up out of reach. We did not see it, 
but we had the rare experience of finding the other rock 
brake, C. Stelleri and three of the four Woodsias which 
grow in the eastern United States. W. obtusa was not 
found in the immediate neighborhood, but Mts. Hesel- 
ton writes me that it has been found by her growing 
