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of the Valley; and it occurs on Elk Rock, just south of 
Portland. There is no question here of following a 
river-valley, as it seems to have done along the Rogue 
River in southwestern Oregon; it would have had to 
ascend the Columbia for a hundred miles to the mouth 
of the Willamette, and up that stream another hundred 
and twenty-five miles to reach some of the stations. 
I am inclined to believe that as far as its occurrence 
in Oregon is concerned, it is in no way dependent on 
the proximity of the coast, but is just as likely to occur 
in the interior as along the littoral. 
J. C. NELSON 
At the invitation of Mr. Rugg and Mr. Underwood 
I made a brief trip to Windsor County, Vermont, early 
in July with the purpose of testing the accuracy of my 
prediction! that the Male Fern would be found above 
2000 feet on many of the higher hills of central and 
northern Vermont. 
From the contour map we selected two hills of hae 
2400 feet, one in Woodstock and the other in Reading, 
and with the aid of Mr. Underwood’s automobile wé 
visited them on the 2nd and 3rd of July. Several 
plants of the Male Fern grew near the summit of each. 
The Reading station is, as far as reports are available 
the most southerly in New England. 
E. J. WINsLow 
THE Maire Fern at Owen Sowunp, OnTarro.—Per- 
haps twenty years ago there was discovered at this 
station, by a local botanist, Mrs. Roy, of Royston 
Park, a new fern, which, at that time, was written up 
in our local papers as something quite unusual for this 
1 See Fern Journal, 7: 89. 
