94 AMERICAN FERN JOURNAL 
small bodies of water surrounded on three sides by steep 
rubble banks and cliffs several hundred feet high. The 
lakes are also famous as harboring in their environs the 
best stations in North America for the hart’s tongue 
fern. Tennessee has a few small plants; Ontario, Can- 
ada, has a few more, as described by H. E. Ransier in 
an early JourNAL. In: the Jamesville region it will be 
possible for members to see and collect leaves (not 
plants) in considerable quantity and of good size. 
Besides the hart’s tongue it will probably be possible 
to see in the same section the slender cliff brake, purple 
cliff brake, adder’s tongue, the Onondaga grape fern 
(Botrychium onondagense), the oak-fern, Goldie’s fern, 
and other species of Dryopteris. Of special interest 
will be the possibility of rediscovering the original plant 
of the hybrid, Dryopteris Goldiana x intermedia, which is 
known only from its original discovery in this region 
and which is the most striking of all the hybrids, a tall- 
growing black-scaled plant of Goldiana habit with the 
cutting approximating that of intermedia. D. Goldiana 
x marginalis has been found near one of the lakes at 
least twice. 
One of the two lakes has, with seventy-five acres 
surrounding, been recently presented to the State as a 
park, and is known as the Clark Reservation in honor 
of its donor. There is now under way in Syracuse, with 
strong prospects of success, a movement to have the 
other lake with seven hundred and fifty acres set aside 
also as a state preserve in order to protect both its 
geological and its botanical features. If this is not done 
there is immediate danger that the land may be pur- 
chased and developed by a lime company. 
Three days will probably be spent about the lakes. 
Other trips can then be arranged if desirable. We ex- 
pect all the Central New York members to be there with 
a good representation from New England, New York, 
and Pennsylvania, and, we hope, other sections. : 
