144 : FERNS. 
Found on limestone cliffs southeast of Poughkeepsie 
in 1882-3. 
Asplenium trichomanes, L.—Common on rocks and on 
rocky soil. : 
Asplenium viride, Huds.—Summit of Shawangunk Mts: 
rare. 
Asplenium ebeneum, Ait.—Common on rocky soil and 
on cliffs. 
Asplenium montanum, Wilid.—Quite abundant on the 
cliffs of the Shawangunk Mts. 
Asplenium ruta-muraria, L.—Rare: the only station 
being ‘‘Cedar Ridge”’ an outcrop of Calciferous 
sandstone three miles east of Poughkeepsie. 
Asplenium thelypteroides, Mzx.—Swamps: uncommon. 
Rather abundant in ‘‘ The Glen” at Vassar College. 
Asplenium jilix-foemina, Bernh.—Common in all the. 
woods. 
Asplenium Bradleyi, Haton.—Summits of the Shawan- 
~ gunk Mts. : rare. 
Camptosorus rhizophylius, Link.—Not uncommon on 
outcrops of slate. 
‘There have occasionally been found leaves with the 
auricles at the base greatly elongated. These elongated 
auricles have been observed to take root at their apices 
in the same manner as the midrib of the leaf. 
Phegopteris hexagonoptera, Feé.—Common in moist 
woods. 
Phegopteris polypodioides, Feé.—Swampy hillsides: 
rare. 
It has been found with P. hexagonoptera along the 
small stream that flows under ‘' Table Rock”’ cliff back 
of Chestnut Grove opposite Poughkeepsie. 
Phegopteris dryopteris, Feé.— 
There was formerly a patch of this fern in an orchard 
back of Lewisburg, opposite Poughkeepsie. It was 
destroyed by plowing a few years ago. | 
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