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and Cape Maboii, by Dr. A. II. MacKay. Further investigation 

 shows that its distribution in this region is very wide, though as 

 a rule only a few plants are found at any one place. It has been 

 gathered in three localities a few miles apart along Bay St. Law- 

 rence, which h'Hinds the island on the north, and beside the 

 road leading thence to Aspy Bay. South of the latter the land 

 is very rocky and barren and it is not found, but reappears at 

 Clyburn Brook, Ingonish, the next bay to the south. 



Search for it at Cheticamp and Margaree, on the west coast, 

 proved unsuccessful, but it is abundant beside the beautiful lakes 

 at Luggelaw, on the road thence to Baddeck. In the Mabou 

 district, besides Dr. MacKay's station, it grows at the Coal Mines, 

 at Glenora Falls, and on Glencoe Mountain nearly half way to 

 the lakes. It probably extends still farther to the south. 



A much rarer fern, not otherwise known in the maritime prov- 

 inces, is PolysticJmm LoncJiitis (L.) Roth, found by Dr. MacKay 

 at Aspy Bay, and by the writer along the roadside near the top 

 of Glencoe Mountain. Near it was Aspleniiiin viridc Huds., not 

 yet found elsewhere in Cape Breton, and at only one place in 

 Nova Scotia proper. 



Polysticliuui Brauiiii (Spenner) Fee, local on the mainland, is 

 here very abundant throughout the hill district, and in the north 

 becomes a splendid plant with fronds often exceeding four feet 

 in height. 



Two plants, one fruiting, of Woodsia glabella R. Br. were 

 found by N. D. MacTavish and the writer, on a rock near the 

 summit of a hill 1,300 feet high at Cheticamp, while beside a 

 brook at the base was a solitary specimen of Filix bidbiftra (L.) 

 Underw. Both species are decidedly rare elsewhere in the 

 province. 



The following also are found north of the Lakes, with hardly 

 an exception, in great abundance : Polypodiuui vulgarc L., Ptend- 

 iuui aqnilininii (L.) Kuhn, Asplaiinni acrostichoidis Sw., A. Filix- 

 fociniiia (L.) Bernh., Polysticliuui acrostichoidcs (Michx.) Schott, 

 Dryoptcris Ncrccboraccnsis (L.) A. Gray, D. Tluiyptcris (L.) A. 

 Gray, D. cristata (L.) A. Gray, D. uiargiualis (L.) A. Gray, D. 

 spinidosa (Retz) Kuntze, Plugoptcris Pkcgoptcris (L.) Underw., 



