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at Pittsford. In the Ferx Bulletin, July, 1898, Miss 

 Slosson reports forty-one species and six varieties from a 

 triangle of about three miles. Since then they have 

 added four species including Asplenium ebenoides, and 

 two other species are known within a few miles. Xo 

 other small area presents so many forms, but Mrs. X. F. 

 Flynn's list from an area within a ten-mile radius of 

 Burlington presents forty-seven species including Pteris 

 aquilina pseudoeaudata, new to Xew England. To these 

 might be added five more, from the Green Mountains, 

 about fifteen miles away. 



Mrs. E. H. Terry and Allan Bourn report forty-two 

 species and thirteen forms from Dorset. Mrs. E. B. 

 Davenport, of Brattleboro, forty-one species and six 

 forms, including Xephrodium simiilatum. Mrs. Daven- 

 port also has a list of twenty-four species and six forms 

 from the town of Jamaica, altitude twelve to twenty-five 

 hundred feet. Prof. H. G. Jesup lists in his Hanover 

 Flora forty-one species, and to this number must be 

 added IVoodsia glabella and IVoodsia alpina, since found 

 in Quechee Gulf. Miss I. M. Paddock reports thirty- 

 eight species from St. Johnsbury. 



Of all the localities in Vermont the Willoughby region 

 is the most surprising. Dr. G. G. Kennedy's Flora in- 

 cludes forty-two species. Here is the most astonishing 

 mingling of northern and southern ferns : Pellcea atro- 

 purpurea and Asplenium Ruta-muraria alongside of 

 IVoodsia glabella and IVoodsia alpina. Asplenium viride, 

 so common at Smuggler's Xotch, has at last been found 

 here, and I shall be surprised if someone does not find 

 Xephrodium fragrans. After the finding of Botryehium 

 Lunaria. last summer, one can expect any northern fern, 

 why not Nephrodium Filix-mas, Cystopteris. montana 

 and Polystiehum lonehitis. Lygodium palmatum has 

 been found within a few miles of Brattleboro, and may 

 yet be found in Southern Vermont ; but Isoetes is the 

 group that furnishes the best chance for new species. 

 Careful search about the Champlain region and the Con- 

 necticut River should give us several more species. 



