PTERIDOPHYTES OF NORTHWESTERN ONTARIO—II_ 81 
distributed through the whole region explored. Mixed 
woods, Longuelac, north end Long Lake; along rocky 
brook, east side Orient Bay, along glacial terrace, Orient 
Bay, deep woods top of rocky ridge, Orient Bay, boggy 
woods, North Ombabika Penninsula, all Lake Nipigon; 
Little Fluor Island, Porphyry Island, interior of Edward 
Island, coastal woods of Paps Harbor, and Silver Islet 
on Thunder Cape, all Lake Superior; woods east side 
Loon Lake; birch-spruce woods near Mission, Ft. Wil- 
liam; moist woods near Crystal Lake, south of Ft. 
William; moist ravine in sand-hills 16 miles west of 
Ft. William; on boulder moraine south of Oscar, C. G. 
R.; several places in mixed woods near Sioux Lookout; 
moist mixed woods, Pelican Falls, Lae Seul. The 
fronds are mostly about 7-8 dm. high, 2-2.5 dm. wide 
in the middle, tapering rather rapidly both ways, the 
stipe 2-3 dm. long and quite scaly at base. Most of 
the leaves are more or less glandular puberulent, the 
indusia are furnished with 1—3-celled cilia, non-glandu- 
lar, the spores average about 43x27p, and the basal 
anterior lobe of the obtuse to sub-acuminate pinnules 
is considerably the longest. This variety seems to 
vary into the following two rather well marked types 
which, so far as the writer can determine, are not among 
those described from collections farther east or south: 
Pl. 123. Sept., 1917. Accordingly, in the meager time at his disposal 
ce then, the author has made examinations under the com mpound m 
Scope of all pecimens of lady ferns from northwestern 
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long to the ies angustum ( Presl, as understood by a 
In general it ~ e said that the age: from northw : said 
© e arger spores, the pedicels of the sporangia ee requ 
bear st and the pinnules ore often or mo 
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than Butters has found for the lady ferns of the northeastern part of N 
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