310 HARPER 



decatur. Scattered nearly all over South Georgia, where- 

 ever there is wet Columbia sand. 

 Long Island to Florida and Mississippi, mostly in the coastal 

 plain. 



L. prostratum Harper, Bull. Torrey Club 33 : 229. 1906. 



L. pinnatum [Chapm.] Lloyd & Underw., not Lam. 



Moist pine-barrens; sometimes with the preceding but less 

 common, coffee (705), irwin, berrien, colquitt, deca- 

 tur. I have seen it also in Meriwether, Sumter, Calhoun, 

 Early, and Ware Counties, but never east of the Altamaha 

 River and its tributaries. 



Known also from the pine-barrens of West Florida and Ala- 

 bama. 



POLYPODIACEiE. 



DRYOPTERIS Adans., Fam. 2 : 20, 551. 1763. 



D. Floridana (Hook.) Kuntze, Rev. 2: 812. 1891. 



berrien: Rich damp woods near Tifton, Sept. 29, 1902 

 (1687). Known also in Sumter, Early, and Thomas (Mrs. 

 Taylor) Counties, and a few stations in Florida and 

 Alabama. 



POLYSTICHUM Roth, Tent. Fl. Germ. 3 : 69. 1800. 

 P. acrostichoides (Mx.) Schott, Gen. Fil. 2:(no. 4). 1834. 



Bluffs, etc., at or near our inland boundary (see pp. 102-106). 

 Montgomery (two stations), wilcox, dooly. Associated 

 with Quercus alba at each place, as is usually the case (see 

 Fern Bull. 13:13. 1905). 

 Nearly throughout temperate Eastern North America. 



OtfOCLEA L. Sp. PI. 1062. 1753. 



0. sensibilis L., 1. c. 



Montgomery: Oconee River swamp near Mount Vernon, 

 June 30, 1903. Rarely nearer the coast, but frequent in 

 the upper third of the coastal plain. 



Widely distributed in the Eastern United States outside of 

 Florida, but scarce in the pine-barren region. 



