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rocky mound. In central Kansas there are several 
of these mounds rising some 200 ft. above the sur- 
rounding country. Under ledges of sandstone rocks 
I found a nice colony of the woodsia growing, the only 
fern I found growing wild in central Kansas, although 
I was told that Cystoplteris fragilis grew in some places. 
I removed several plants of the woodsia to a flower 
garden I had planted on the north side of my house. 
I made a pile of stones and covered them partly with 
soil which I kept damp until the ferns had started to 
grow. They grew so well and covered the rockpile 
with such fluffy greenness that I decided to enlarge 
it and place more plants in it from the mound. 
In August I made a trip to northwest Missouri to 
visit my old home of my boyhood days. I remembered 
I had seen growing in the woods the maidenhair and 
two other ferns, which at the time I did not know the 
names of. While in Missouri I hunted the woods and 
dug up clumps of the maidenhair and the two others 
which proved to be Cystopteris fragilis and Athyrium 
Jilix-femina, and by the help of a friend I found Onoclea 
sensibilis. These four ferns are the only ferns I have 
found in Nodaway Co., Mo., and I have searched the 
woods carefully during my boyhood days. I have 
recently read an account in the Fern Bulletin of Osmunda 
cinnamomea and I believe O. regalis being found in 
the south end of the County in later years. I took 
good roots of all four of the ferns from Missouri with 
me to Kansas and set them in my fern bed. This was 
my beginning of a fern garden, also my beginning of 
the real study of ferns. 
In September of the same year my wife and I made 
a trip to Boulder, Col., and while exploring the moun- 
tains we came across several clumps of Cheilanthes 
lanosa, and Pteris aquilina, the latter being as high 
as my head. A few days later, while exploring Boulde 
