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year and has been doing well. The original locality was cleared 

 during the following winter and converted into a city lot, and the 

 smaller plant was found with difficulty the next summer. This, 

 too, was taken home and transplanted, and has established its 

 identity as this same hybrid. 



WOODWARDIA VIRGINICA (L.) J. E. Sm. 



Pond at the corner of Ocean Terrace and Todt Hill Road, 

 Oct. 4, 1908 (j626) ; woods west of Great Kills, Sept. 11, 1910 



Beside the one and one-half acre plot previously mentioned and 

 the adjoining woodland of which it forms a part, there still remain 

 on Staten Island a few other forest tracts that have been left 

 comparatively undisturbed and are favorable to the growth of 

 certain ferns characteristic of moist woodlands. Among these 

 may be mentioned: the upper part of the valley on the south side 

 of Ocean Terrace and on the east slope of Todt Hill; the woods 

 west of Egbertville, a portion of which has not been destroyed; 

 the woods adjoining the brook between " Ketchum's Mill Pond" 

 and the present dam ; a tract north of this, toward New Spring- 

 ville, adjoining the New Springville area previously mentioned 

 as having been cleared during the winter of 1906-1907 ; the Bulls 

 Head woods; and the forest near the corner of Merrell Avenue 

 and South Avenue. 



So, in spite of the continual destruction of our forests, Staten 

 Island can still offer to the lover of nature some deep woodland 

 retreats, where he may roam in peaceful enjoyment of nature and 

 revel in the profusion of its forms of life, forgetting for the time 

 the turmoil and strife of other parts of the great city of which 

 these woodlands form a part. It would be fortunate, indeed, if 

 these would be preserved to posterity. 



