2 AMERICAN FERN JOURNAL 
similar mountains of the regions, is well wooded, at 
least on the sides, while its summit is broad and flat, 
embracing large areas of open meadows, broken by 
numerous marshes or outcroppings of polished rocks. 
Many springs issue from the sides of the mountain and, 
uniting with streamlets from the marshes, fall down over 
mossy boulders hidden in the shade of chestnuts, oaks, 
elms, and other deciduous trees. It is along these 
wooded ravines that ferns are most abundant, but some, 
like Dryopteris Thelypteris and D. Clintoniana, prefer 
the wooded swamps of the valley, where in September 
great beds of fringed gentians spread a sheet of blue. 
The royal fern frequents chiefly the dark blueberry 
swamps which lie high up on the mountains, but it, too, 
sometimes descends to the valley. These upland 
swamps, which were brightened by the crimson leaves 
of the swamp maple and sometimes by the scarlet 
berries of mountain holly, occupy hollows on the moun- 
tain sides, shut in, often, by huge walls of rocks. Above 
and around them stretch acres of scrub-oak thickets 
which exactly simulate the oak thickets which occupy 
the summits of some of the lower mountains in New 
Mexico, the resemblance being accentuated by the 
scattered pines which rise here and there. 
The following is a list of the ferns and their relatives 
which were collected or observed, all in the immediate 
vicinity of Clove. A visit was made one day to the 
Shawangunk Mountains of Ulster County, where there 
have been found Asplenium Bradleyi and other rare 
ferns, but during the brief time spent there only some 
of the very common species were noticed. 
1. Potypopium vutcare L. Common on rocks and 
in rich shaded soil nearly everywhere. 
- ADIANTUM PEDATUM L. Very abundant, the fronds 
reaching a large size. Some of the young plants strik- 
ingly suggest the fronds of A. Capillus-V eneris. 
