THE FERN BULLETIN 



Vol. XVII APRIL, 1909 No. 2 uBRARY 



NEW YORK 



NOTES ON NEPHRODIUM HYBRIDS. botanical 

 By E. J. \\ inslow. 



On the Fourth of July, 1005 I was in Barton Land- 

 ing, Orleans County, Vermont, and, driven to botaniz- 

 ing to get away from the noise, I ventured to try what 

 I then considered a rather unpromising strip of swamp 

 stretching along one side of the intervale just below 

 the village. The swamp was quite heavily wooded, 

 very wet. and in quite a primeval condition with fallen 

 trees in all stages of decay and a rich growth of plant 

 life. 



I noticed with some curiosity frequent clusters of 

 Ncphrodiuin marginale which usually grows in drier 

 situations, and many plan's of N. crista turn that seemed 

 unusually broad and lax but did not quite fit the con- 

 ception I then had of .V. Clintoniamim. One plant 

 that I collected struck me as intermediate between N. 

 marginale and .V. cristatum and I wrote Mr. A. A. 

 Eaton mentioning it as probably a hybrid. 



Circumstances prevented any further exploration in 

 that vicinity until the summer of 1907. By that time 

 I was fully impressed with the interesting character of 

 some of my previous collection and took the first op- 

 portunity to visit the swamp prepared to make a good 

 representative collection. I divided this collection into 

 two parts and carried one to North Easton and laid it 

 before Mr. Eaton. He pronounced most of my crista- 

 tums, — " Clint onianum" suggested that two or three 



