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rocks at the railway bridge, Shannonville, and on boulders beyond the 

 " Big Spring " on the Marmora Eoad, Hastings Co., Ont. ; abundant on 

 broken masses of rock at Foster's Plats, Niagara Falls, Ont. ; plentiful 

 at Owen Sound, Ont., on boulders and ledges under the cliffs. {Macoun.) 

 Hamilton and Ancaster, Wentworth Co., and Lake Medad, Halton Co., 

 Ont. {JOogie.) On shaded, mossy masses of limestone fallen from the 

 cliffs in " The Eavino," Dundas, and at Beamsville, Ont. (^Burgess.) 

 Canada {Goldie), to the Saskatchewan (JDrummond) , in Hook., Fl. 

 Bor.-Am. 



752. PHECOPTERIS, Fee, Gen. Fil., 242. 



(BEECH-FERN.) 



(2998.) P. polypodioides, F^e, Gen. Fil., 243. Macoun & Bui-gees, 

 Trans. Eoy. Soc. Can., ii., sect, iv., lOT. 



Polypodium Pkegopteris, Linn., Sp. PL, 155p. Swartz, Syn. Fil., 40. Hook., 



Fl. Bor.-Am., ii., 258. Provancher, Fl. Can., 713. Lawaon, Can. 



Nat., i., 269. 

 Polypodium connectUe, Michx., Fl. Bor.-Am., ii., 271. Pursh, Fl. Am. 



Sept., ii., 659. 

 Phegopteris connectUe, Watt, Can. Nat., iv., 363. Lawson, Fern Fl. Can., 



247. 



Occurs in damp, especially rocky woods, and on hillsides, and is 

 commonest in the Eastern Provinces. Common and generally dis- 

 tributed throughout Nova Scotia. {Ball.) Common in New Bruns- 

 wick. (Fowler.) Common in Quebec. (D' Urban, Brunei, McOord, 

 St. Gyr, &c.) Very luxuriant on the Island of Anticosti and shore of 

 the Lower St. Lawrence, Que. ; woods, at Brackley Point, Prince 

 Edward Island ; abundant around Lake Superior, Ont. ; rather scarce 

 along Lake Manitoba and the Porcupine Mountains, Man. ; near the 

 line of the Canadian Pacific Ey. in the valley of Beaver Ci-eek, Selkirk 

 Mountains, and in the Gold Eange at Griflln Lake, B.C., both on stumps 

 and on rocks along mountain torrents. (Macoun.) Prescott, Gren- 

 ville Co., and Osgoode Station, Eussell Co., Ont. (Billings.) Ottawa, 

 and along the C. P. Ey. north of Lakes Huron and Superior, Ont. 

 (Fletcher.) Near the sources of the Columbia on Portage Eiver, Eocky 

 Mountains, Lat. 52°. (Drummond.) Shaded, rocky places. Port 

 Simpson, B.C. (Anderson.) 



(2999.) P. hexagonoptera, F^e, Gen. Fil., 243. Macoun & Burgess, 

 Trans. Eoy. Soc. Can., ii., sect, iv., 198. 



