THE FERN BULLETIN 



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In these cliffs were narrow crevices and upon a 

 former occasion I had found a plant of Ncphrodium 

 patuhim here. In an attempt to find the same crevice 

 we climbed into another where the new Asplenium 

 grew, in company with A. parvulum, as I now remem- 

 ber. These crevices run northward and vary from 

 four to thirty feet in width with walls running up 

 from fifty to one hundred feet. At the lower end the 

 ferns grew on the benches in the accumulations of leaf 

 mold and sand, sheltered under the overhanging rocks 

 from sun and wind. I brought home seventy-five liv- 

 ing plants and they grew nicely in our greenhouses, 

 except when the fumigater was abroad. Our houses 

 are in a new commercial nursery and help and glass 

 are both crowded in seasons of the white fly and red 

 spider. We now have only one sturdy plant and this 

 is growing" out side on the north side of the house 

 during the summer vacation and doing well. Many 

 of the Arizona ferns grow in the bright sun light ; for 

 example, the Pcllacas, Gymno grammas, Chcilanthcs 

 and Notholacnas but the new fern grows in a situation 

 similar to wood ferns. 



A good plantation of young plants were left and 

 the location was well adapted for the growth from 

 spores. Expecting to raise a lot of them in our green- 

 houses I only preserved one dried specimen entire. 

 Thus the location is described minutly in the hope that 

 other collectors may find the colony. I have collected 

 during seven of my vacations in Arizona and hope to 

 collect there many more, but it is a big country, count- 

 ing the hills and there are so many places to go to 

 that I may never return to the Huachucas. These and 

 the Chiricahua mountains are the best for ferns I have 

 so far visited in Arizona. Perhaps there are other 

 ranges as good and perhaps there are other colonies 



