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THE FERN BULLETIN 



rather elevated regions, and seldom in very great 

 abundance. The specimen from which our illustration 

 was made was collected in Jamaica at nearly a mile 

 above sea level. 

 Jolietj III. 



FERN NOTES. 



By Mrs. A. E. Scoullar. 



OSMUNDA ClNNAMOMEA f. FRONDOSA. In the 



summer of 1906 I used a plant of Cinnamon fern for 

 house decoration and in the autumn I planted it on the 

 border of a. pine grove, where it received the morning 

 sun. In 1907 this fern sent up three nomal sterile, two 

 normal fertile, and two partly sterile and partly fertile 

 fronds. The fertile portion being from the apex to 

 near the middle of the frond. The plant differed in no 

 way from the type in the season of 1908. 



An Interesting Fern Colony. — While on a 

 tramp in East Stroudsburg, Penna., on Oct. 23, 1908, 

 Air. Scoullar and I came across a limestone boulder, in 

 a grove of oak and hickory. This boulder was about 

 seven feet high and nine feet square. On it's top was 

 growing Polypody, on the east side, in a crevice, sev- 

 eral plants of maidenhair spleenwort, on the west side 

 a mat of walking fern, on the south obtuse woodsia, 

 at the base, close against the stone ebony spleenwort. 

 not two feet away grew maidenhair, marginal, and 

 Christmas ferns. Beside the ferns grew Columbine, 

 Hepatica and many other plants that I could not re- 

 cognize, the foliage having been destroyed by frost. 

 We think that our "fiiKl" more than repaid us for our 

 long walk. 



Aspidium simulatum. — After tramping miles 

 about Standish, Maine, for three seasons, searching for 



