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readily be here. This is the sort (jf situation it would be likely U) 

 favor. Etc." But the fern stayed right where it was, and every- 

 body looked at it. There is no Capillus J'cncris on the list which 

 follows. 



Despite such limitations, the fern count for the two days, start- 

 ing with five after supper Friday evening, grew to eighteen before 

 breakfast the next morning; to twenty-five by noontime, and 

 reached thirty during the afternoon. Three families are repre- 

 sented and fifteen genera. 



The rarest species in the leader's experience was the wall rue 

 (Asplenium Riita-muraria) which grew in small tufts in almost 

 any rock exposure on the hotel property, almost within sight from 

 the front porch itself. With it was the purple cliff brake and 

 scattered walking ferns, neither in the best development, but fre- 

 quent on almost any ledge. The other rock ferns were Cystopteris 

 fragilis, Asplenium Trichomanes, Polypodium vulgarc, and IVood- 

 sia obtusa, with Asplenium platyneuron standing up straight on 

 grassy rocky banks. 



On rocks and in deeper woods soil, Dryoptcris marginalis was 

 everywhere, easily the commonest fern seen, as it so often is. Ten 

 other dryopterids were found. A few scattered plants of D. inter- 

 media the florists' "fancy fern" were all of this species seen, mostly 

 in upland situations. For D. cristata, D. spinulosa, and D. Booftii, 

 a special trip to swampy woods was necessary. Three small 

 swamps were visited, one near Lafayette and two near Sparta, and 

 these swamps or lowland forms were found in all three. As a 

 matter of record, it is hereby recorded that plants of these three 

 and of Osmunda regalis were brought back to the Pines property 

 and set out in appropriate situations along the small lake where they 

 were not found naturally. The tallest and finest of all our north- 

 ern shield ferns, D. Goldi<ina, was well represented in a small but 

 vigorous colony. 



The three species of the old Phegopteris section of the genus 

 D. phegopteris, D. hexagonoptera, and D. Dryopteris were found 

 in a few places in the hotel woodlands ; also the marsh fern and 

 the New York fern, D. thelypteris and D. noveboracensis respec- 

 tively, although these were decidedly not common. 



The maidenhair, Adiantum, was everywhere in the woods, 

 forming frequenty and vigorous clumps. The brake, Ptcridium 



