American Bern Journal 
Vol. 5 APRIL—JUNE, 1915 No. 2 
Notes on the Pteridophytes of Northwestern 
Ontario 
0. E. JENNINGS 
During the summer of 1914 the writer and his wife 
continued their botanical work of 1912 and 1913 in 
northwestern Ontario, going farther to the north and 
northwest of Lake Superior. In 1914 the uncompleted 
line of the Canadian Northern Railway was taken at 
Nipigon, riding in the caboose of a construction train 
forty miles north to the southeast extension of Lake 
Nipigon, a long narrow fiord-like arm known as Orient 
ay. 
Considerable time was spent in the Orient Bay re- 
gion, and then, through the kindness .of Chief Ranger 
L. E. Bliss, of the Nipigon Forest Reserve, to whom 
thankful acknowledgments are made for many courtesies 
extended, a trip was made by launch to the extreme 
northern end of the lake, about sixty-five miles farther 
north. Here camp was established at the Revillon 
Fréres trading post, near the head of Ombabika Bay, 
about three weeks being spent there. Returning then 
by launch to Orient Bay and to Nipigon by construction 
and gravel train, a trip was made by way of the Grand 
Trunk Lines rom Fort William to Graham, about two 
hundred miles to the northwest. 
To the north of Lake Superior, around Lake Nipigon, 
it is wild in the extreme and very picturesque, but 
[No. 1 of the Jovrnat (5: 1-32) was issued March 18, 1915.] 
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