HAY-SCENTED FERN. 



Dicksonia pubescens, Swartz, in Schkuhr, Krypt. Gew., p. 125, t. 131. — 

 Presl, Tent. Pterid., p. 136. 



Dicksonia punctiloba. Hooker, Sp. Fil., i, p. 79. — Hooker & Baker, 

 Syn. Fil., p. 55. — Fee, Gen. Fil., p. 355. 



Aspidium punctilobum, Willdenow, Sp. PI., v, p. 279. — Pursh, F1. Am. 

 Sept., ii, p. 664. 



Sitolobium punctilobum, J. Smith. 



Dicksonia punctilobula, Gray, Manual, ed. i, p. 629, etc. — Kunze, in 

 Sill. Journ., July, 1848, p. 87; in Linnaea, xxiii, p. 249, — 

 Darlington, F1. Cestr., ed. iii, p. 394. — Mettenius, Fil. Hort. 

 Lips., p. 105. — Eaton, in Chapman's Flora, p. 597. — William- 

 son, Ferns of Kentucky, p. 119, t. xlvi. 



Nephrodium punctilobulum, Michaux, F1. Bor.-Am., ii, p. 268. 



Aspidium punctilobulum, Swartz, Syn. Fil., p. 60. 



Dennstcsdtia punctilobula, Moore, Index Fil., p. xcvii, 307. — Lawson, 

 in Canad. Nat., i, p. 287. 



Hab. — Moist woods, and often in low grassy places; a common 

 fern in New Brunswick, Canada, New England and the Middle States 

 extending westward to Indiana, and possibly farther, and southward as 

 far as Central Alabama, where it was found on the cliffs of the Cohaba 

 River by Professor Eugene A. Smith. It is not mentioned in the cat- 

 alogues of plants of Wisconsin, nor does Professor Harvey report it as 

 found in Arkansas. It is probably confined to Eastern North America, 

 although Kunze claimed to have specimens from the West Indies. 



Description : — The root-stock creeps extensively an inch 

 or two below the surface of the ground. It is about a line 

 and a half or two lines thick, perfectly round, and nearly 

 naked, bearing instead of chaff a very scanty covering of 



