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More thorough search will undoubtedly bring to 
light, perhaps additional species, and many interesting 
forms, especially among the mountainous districts of 
Warren and Saratoga counties, where the flora has 
received but very little attention and study. 
Ophioglossaceae 
OPHIOGLOSSUM VULGATUM L. 
Dry pastures, rarely in swales, bogs and woods; in- 
frequent. June—August. 
Glens Falls (Mrs. L. A. Millington) in correspondence 
with Mr. Wm. H. Leggett, June 19, 1872, says: “ Ophiog- 
lossum vulgatum, I find in nearly every swampy bit of 
grass”; Assembly Point, Lake George (G. D. Hulst); 
Hague (Mrs. E. Watrous); Comstocks (J. F. Kemp); 
Granville, “rather common” (F. T. Pember); Baker 
farm near Schuylerville (Wallace Greenalch); New 
Michigan Pond marsh, W. Fort Ann, Nov. 3, 1900, two 
small sterile plants growing in sphagnum; southeast of 
Tripoli; Vaughns; bog north of Round Lake; low mea- 
dow south of Shushan near the Fly Kill. 
This fern prefers to grow about little knolls of stony 
sandy and silt loam at Vaughns; and is usually over- 
looked on account of its small size. It varies from a 
few inches to a foot in height and has from one to three 
fruiting plants from the same rootstock, more than one 
when the plants are somewhat gregarious. Dry suc- 
cessive seasons tend to kill it out. It grows quite 
luxuriantly, between the tussocks of a swale of Carex 
stricta, about a mile east of Vaughns corners, on the 
north bank of South Beaver creek. 
Borrycurum simpLex E. Hitchcock 
Dry woods; very rare. 
Woods of sugar maple and hemlock, about half a ~ 
west of Vaughns schoolhouse, June 23 and July 12, 
_ 1896 (a portion of the sterile frond fruiting mm one or 
