AMERICAN FERN SOCIETY 121 
Notwithstanding the fact that the Jamesville region 
was familiar country to me as I had tramped it from 
boyhood till through college, I was greatly impressed 
with the large number of species of ferns which we were 
able to discover in the three days of our Society meet- 
ing in July. Of the forty different kinds found I had 
in my earlier tramps seen all but perhaps three or four 
kinds, but it was somewhat surprising to have even 
that number added to your list for your home region. 
When it is realized that two or three more species are 
known to occur in the neighborhood and should be 
added to the list the great richness of the two or three 
square miles is apparent. Remember, too, that this 
list includes no lycopods or equisets, although it does 
contain two or three hybrids. 
Interest is added in this connection to the project 
which had been agitated for some time in Syracuse, a 
few miles away, to make the region around East Green 
Lake a State reservation, not only on account of its fern 
riches, but because of its generally interesting flora, its 
great geological distinctiveness, and its natural beauty. 
In the Society excursions both East and West Green 
Lakes were visited. As has already been noted in the 
JOURNAL the region immediately adjacent to the west 
lake has already been set aside as a State preserve. 
But the west lake contains nothing in the fern line not 
found near the east lake and furthermore lacks a con- 
siderable number of species which occur about the east 
lake. Mention made above of finding forty kinds of 
ferns in two or three square miles, had in mind a strip 
of land including the west lake but this would be unneces- 
sary. A triangle with the longest side not more than a 
mile including the east Green Lake and extending to 
the shores of White and Evergreen Lakes to the east 
would contain practically all the forty kinds of ferns 
found. 
