50 AMERICAN FERN JOURNAL 
On May 9, 1914, a cluster of about fifty plants was 
found three miles west of Bloomington, Ind. These 
plants were all within an area of four square yards, at 
the edge of a bush patch on a northwesterly slope near 
the low and somewhat marshy soil bordering a natural 
drain. The soil was a stiff clay covered with a very 
light layer of humus and dead leaves. The plants were 
from 6 cm. to 10 em. high, but with the spores not 
quite mature. 
About a week after making the above find, on May 
14 to be exact, I was tramping with Prof. D. M. Mot- 
tier, of Indiana University, over the rough limestone 
country about 5 miles northwest of Harrodsburg, Ind., 
when we found another group of O. vulgatum. This 
group showed as many plants as the first, but more 
closely placed, and somewhat larger than the others. 
There were no mature spores. This group was on top 
of a considerable hill, with quite dry soil and a shading 
of beech and sugar maple. Many of the plants were 
growing in a path which had recently fallen into disuse. 
F, L. Pickett. 
Note upon Polypodium subtile and a related 
species! 
WILLIAM R. MAXON 
Polypodium subtile Kunze, described in 18472 from 
Merida, Colombia, upon specimens collected by Moritz 
(no. 325), is a diminutive outlying member of the group 
of P. cultratum Willd. which has been rather widely 
but not frequently collected, the range ascribed to it 
by Christensen being “Jamaica, Venezuela-Peru.’”’ The 
Jamaican record is erroneous and comes from including 
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* Linnaea 20: 375. 
