46 AMERICAN FERN JOURNAL 
Where have I seen the adder’s-tongue fern growing? 
I looked for it several seasons in damp places and never 
got a sight of it. Looked where others indicated were 
likely places. 
My first find was on a bank in a pasture, facing 
northerly not far from the edge of woods. Only a few 
specimens, but one pair of “twins.” No water, no 
sphagnum near; northwest of Jamesville, N. Y. 
While searching for Botrychiums in a thicket of 
prickly ash I ran across my next lot of adder’s tongues. 
Not very thrifty ones, but many of them and a good 
proportion of them fruiting. The thicket was so dense 
that I had to crawl through it, and the foliage overhead 
was one. continuous mass, forming a tent-like place 
beneath. This thicket was on the crest of a rocky 
ridge between Scolopendrium Lake and White Lake, east 
of Jamesville. A few rods further north I found scat- 
tering specimens under sumacs where red raspberries 
fringed the woods. Not far away, along a wood road, 
among scattering blackberry bushes, a few more speci- 
mens were located. In this station the adder’s tongues 
came up through squawberry vines which closely covered 
the ‘surface in luxuriant growth. The soil was well 
drained. Others were noticed on a small hummock, in 
a small glen, beside a cow path, but partially shaded; 
sandy loam; no suggestion of wet, sphagnum or muck; 
about 14 of a mile east of the other stations just men- 
tioned, 100 feet above the lake level. Only one lone 
specimen has been reported before from this well-known 
locality. 
As thrifty and abundant a lot as I have found was 
near Labrador Pond, south of Tully, N. Y., on the 
northwestern side of the pond, as I was climbing up 
toward the wooded height, through pastured land. 
here the grass was deepest, near wild rose bushes, 
_ or above woodchuck holes, or on the steeper faces wh 
