rPnilP VI FERTILE AND STERILE FRONDS LEAF-LIKE 

 UKUUr VI AND USUALLY SIMILAR; FRUIT-DOTS ROUND 



course, no clew to Woodsia glabella. The next sum- 

 mer the hunt was renewed and persistently followed 

 up. I found pleasure in securing one by one nearly 

 all our Vermont ferns. At the time I thought it 

 worthy of remembrance that a single field of diversi- 

 fied pasture and woodland on an adjoining farm 

 vielded me thirty species. Although the two com- 

 mon species of Woodsia were near at hand, Woodsia 

 glabella was still eluding my search. I sent a friend 

 to the summit of Jay Peak in a fruitless quest for it. 

 Finally, on September ist, I joined Mr. Congdon at 

 its old station on Willoughby Mountain, and made 

 myself familiar with its exquisite form. 



" During the first two years of my collecting in 

 earnest, 1874 and 1875, several visits were made to 

 Camel's Hump, the peak most accessible to me. In 

 this way some time was lost, because its subalpine 

 area is limited, and consequently the number of rare 

 plants to be found there is small. Yet, with such 

 dogged persistence as sometimes prevents my mak- 

 ing good progress, my last visit to that point was 

 not made till the 20th of June, 1876. On that day I 

 clambered, I believe, over every shelf of its great 

 southern precipice and peered into every fissure 

 among the rocks. At last, as I was climbing up the 

 apex over the southeastern buttress, my perilous toil 

 was rewarded by the discovery not only of Woodsia 

 glabella, but of Aspidium fragrans. . . . There 

 were only a few depauperate specimens of each 

 virhich had not yet succ':.mbed to the adverse condi- 

 tions of their dry and exposed situation." 



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