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locality, but I have been unable through local sources 
to discover the name of the fern mentioned. 
I wrote of this matter to Mr. A. J. Morris, a botanist 
of more than local reputation, of Peterborough, Ontario, 
who spent two weeks botanizing in this locality three 
years ago, and he included with his reply among other 
things a fine specimen of “Aspidium filiz-mas” which 
he says he took at Royston Park while on the trip just 
Mentioned, and indicated the location as being in the 
tear of the Rifle Butts, below the Limestone Cliff, west 
of Owen Sound. 
At the first opportunity I drove out to the location 
indicated, and found directly four lusty plants, full- 
sized, fertile and sterile, but a little late in the season 
to take perfect and unblemished specimens. I have 
hot taken time as yet to thoroughly search the talus 
slope to adequately estimate the size of this station, 
but will do so very shortly. 
The plants grow on rather large sized limestone rock . 
talus, on a slope not wider than 100 yards, in front 
of a 60-foot cliff, facing east, and are not in deep shade. 
The trees are mostly Beech, Maple, and a few Cedar, 
tather open and scattered, letting in a good illumination 
from above, and will be shaded by the cliff from the 
hot afternoon sun. They neighbor Polystichum lonchitis, 
Scolopendrium vulgare and Aspidium marginale, and 
More splendid specimens of either I have seldom seen. 
The elevation above sea level is 799 feet, much lower, 
I believe, than is their usual habitat. 
It appears not a little strange that I had system- 
atically searched for three years for this elusive fern 
and curiously enough have been within a few hun 
Yards of it at different times without examining the 
*xact slope where it deigned to dwell. 
a W. R. McCott 
