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somewhat crippled plants of Goldie’s shield fern sta- 
tioned near the little spring; but one Sunday in October, 
while crossing the country on my way from Mt. Grey- 
lock to North Adams, I saw this large, beautiful fern 
growing by the hundreds in company with silvery 
spleenworts and almost covering the ground for quite a 
distance. 
Although the walking fern and the ebony spleenwort 
grow almost side by side, I never saw the hybrid, As- 
plenium ebenoides. Neither did I find Asplenium Ruta- 
muraria till I crossed the Vermont state line. A visit 
to North Pownal yielded that pretty little fern and 
Pellaea atropurpurea. It seems to me that if someone 
were to transplant a few of these rare ferns to the North 
Adams region they ought to grow as well on ragged lime 
rocks as they do a few miles farther north. 
Not counting the ferns found at North Pownal, this 
list includes 31 or 32 species, 29 of which grow on the 
same hillside and within a radius of a quarter of a mile. 
This number I found; but I am only a beginner, with 
limited time, and by no means any expert. I believe 
someone else with more experience and plenty of time 
could do considerably better and probably find a record 
number of species. If anybody wants to go there to 
check my list and look for more, I shall be very glad to 
give directions. Of course I have fronds of most of the 
ferns I found —P. Ostertunp, Brooxtyy, N. Y. (in a 
letter to one of the editors). 
On July 4th of this year I discovered near the base 
of Mt. Hor in the town of Westmore, Vt., a small group 
of plants of Athyrium angustifolium. This find brings 
the number of fern species in the Willoughby region of 
36 and gives that locality a lead of one over D seit 
Vt. As far as the records are known to me this station 
is the farthest northeast so far reported for this fern.— 
E. J. Winstow, AvBURNDALE, Mass. 
