variety would be just right. It seems almost as if the 

 plant, desirous of insuring its propagation, rushes to 

 maturity, the first form fertile at its apex only, and then 

 takes its time for the later fronds fertile their entire 

 length. 



Xephrodium Noveboracense (L.) New York Fern. 

 More abundant than indicated by State herbarium speci- 

 mens, as I, alone, have found it in four other counties 

 than those given the State catalogue. It may be found 

 in narrow wooded valleys and wet woods of the north, 

 but is rare in the south. When found at all. it is likely 

 to be plentiful. 



Xephrodium cristatum (L.) Crested Fern. Not 

 rare, yet not as common as some other species of a similar 

 habitat. It is likely to be found anywhere in swampy or 

 wet lowland thickets. 



Xephrodium cristatum Clintonianum (D. C. 

 Eaton.) Crested Fern. First collected in 1903 in Wayne 

 County, a few miles east of Wooster. There were fewer 

 than ten plants at the single station found. As they were 

 in a place likely to be cleared away at any time. I felt 

 justified in taking up four of the smaller plants and trans- 

 planting them to the school yard at Troy, where they pros- 

 pered better than many other species which grew in my 

 little fernery there. Two of these plants were afterwards 

 taken up and sent to the Ohio State University. Of their 

 subsequent fate I am uninformed. The single station in 

 Wayne County is the only place in the State where it has 

 ever been collected so far as present records show. It 

 fruits from four to six weeks earlier than the preceding 

 species which may be found a short distance away. 



Xephrodium Boottii (Tuckerm.) Boott's Shield- 

 Fern. This species was collected about one mile east of 

 Middlefield. Geauga County. June 17. 1905. in an open 

 wet woods. A single plant was all that was seen and 

 from it four passably good specimens were secured. This 

 interesting fern ought to be found in other localities, for 



