CRnilP V FERTILE AND STERILE FRONDS LEAF-LIKE AND SIMILAR; 

 ^ V SPORANGIA IN LINEAR OR OBLONG FRUIT -DOTS 



der Fern. On every side rise the tall crowns of the 

 omnipresent Evergreen Wood Fern. Lower down, 

 close to the rushing stream which we see mistily 

 through the green branches, its roar always in our 

 ears, grow the Walking Leaf and the Maidenhair. 

 The little Polypody climbs over the rocks and 

 perches contentedly on the spreading roots of trees, 

 while a few fragile plants of the Slender Cliff Brake, 

 something of a rarity in these parts, are fastened to 

 the mossy ledges. 



The other published northern station of the 

 Hart's Tongue is at Jamesville, some fifteen miles 

 from Chittenango Falls, near a small sheet of water 

 known commonly as Green Pond, christened botan- 

 ically Scolopendrium Lake. Here also it grows 

 among the talus at the foot of limestone cliffs. The 

 plants which I found in this locality were less luxu- 

 riant than those at Chittenango Falls. They grow 

 in more exposed, less shaded spots. 



Scolopendrium Lake has become somewhat fa- 

 mous in the world of fern students by reason of 

 Mr. Underwood's claim that in its immediate vicin- 

 ity, within a radius of fifty rods from the water's 

 edge (the lake being a mere pond), grow twenty- 

 seven different kinds of ferns, while within a circle 

 whose diameter is not over three miles thirty-four 

 species have been found. During this one day we 

 gave to the neighborhood, we could not hope to 

 find so great a number, the result, perhaps, of many 

 days' investigation, and were forced to content our- 

 selves with the twenty-one species we did find. In 



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