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familiar with all these three places. I very well remember 

 that my father was anxious to secure a specimen of this fern, 

 as the fact of its having- been found here was disputed. Your 

 letter, read in connection with my recollection of his having 

 said that some noted botanist had found it in the gorge near 

 here, and the dispute that had grown out of the report, leaves 

 no doubt in my mind that the fern was found within one mile 

 of here, and by the man you name, though not strictly on my 

 father's land, but just off his property. This being so, it is 

 safe for you to say that on the Chittenango, on the Butternut, 

 and in the town of Onondaga, just at the base of the limestone 

 cliff of one hundred feet high, this fern has been found. The 

 first of these discoveries was the one in 1806, by Pursh. It 

 would have gratified my father much, could he have shown that 

 this fern grew in various places along the base of the limestone 

 range, though he was unable to find a specimen here as late as 

 the time when he set me looking for it, when I was carrying a 

 gun over our hills about the year 1825." 



On account of delay in the publication of this Beport, the 

 remaining Papers named in the Table of Contents, on pages 37, 

 38, will appear in the next Annual Report. 



