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*Dryopteris clintoniana X GOLDiANA Dowell, Bull. Torrey 



Club 35: 137. 20 Ap 1908. 



D. Goldieana celsa Palmer, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash. 13 : 65. 

 1899. 



South Avenue swamp, west of the fireworks factories at Bulls 

 Head, Oct. 9, 1904 (3338). This locality is the one and one-half 

 acre tract referred to before. A specimen of this collection was 

 designated as the type in connection with the description of the 

 hybrid. One plant of the original clump of two was taken home 

 and transplanted July 25, 1907. This plant has been slow in 

 establishing itself in our small city lot, but it has by this time 

 become a robust plant and has afforded favorable opportunities 

 for observation and for comparison with the other plant still 

 growing in its native place. 



*Dryopteris CLINTONIANA X INTERMEDIA Dowcll, Bull. Torrey 



Club 35: 136. 20 Ap 1908. 



A single plant at Bulls Head, Aug. 3, 1905 (3PP3) ; woods west 

 of Egbertville, Aug. 17, 1905 {404P), also a single plant. 



Dryopteris cristata X INTERMEDIA Dowcll, Bull. Torrey Club 



35: 136. 20 Ap 1908. 



Aspidium Boottii Tuckerman, Hovey's Mag. 9 : 145. 1843. 

 South New York No. 3 (formerly Darcey's woods), Sept. 19, 



1908 (357^)- 



The first known record of Boott's fern on Staten Island^ is that 

 of Nov. 14, 1903 {2803), when a single clump of the fern was 

 found in the South Avenue swamp, west of the fireworks fac- 

 tories. Another plant was found a few rods farther east ]\Iay 

 30, 1906 (4337), but this disappeared before the end of the year. 

 The last record for Boott's fern in this swamp is that of June 23, 

 1907 {4814), when specimens were collected from the original 

 clump. At that time a small tree, at the base of which the fern 

 was growing, had been felled, and when search was made for the 

 fern on several occasions later, the plants had disappeared. It 

 may be well to recall in this connection that in the spring or 



'Proc. Nat. Sci. Assoc. Staten I. 9 : 2. N 1903. 



