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indeed this is the quickest and surest means of identify- 

 ing it. for while it has the round fruit dots common 

 to all Nephrodium and bears a superficial resemblance 

 to the marsh fern which sometimes confuses young 

 collectors (especially as the habitats of the two ferns 

 often overlap) yet one glance at the lower pinnae will 

 settle the question for none of our other ferns possess 

 this peculiarity in so marked a degree. 



The Xew York fern is found from Newfoundland 

 to North Carolina, Arkansas and Minnesota. It has 

 a slender creeping rootstock and its delicate yellow 

 green fronds with their pinnatifid pinnae seldom reach 

 a greater height than two feet. The fertile fronds 

 differ but little from the sterile though sometimes 

 heavily fruited fronds are slightly taller and narrower. 



The books say it is easily cultivated, but I have 

 failed to establish a plant in my garden though I have 

 tried several times to do so. 



New Hartford, N. Y. 



ASPLENIUM BRADLEYI IN NORTH ALABAMA. 



By Dr. E. L. Lee. 



It may be of interest, to some Fern students, to know 

 something of the ecology of Asplenium Bradleyi, as it 

 is found near Bridgeport, in Xorth Alabama. This fern 

 is accredited, by Dr. Mohr, our former State Botanist, 

 to the Cumberland range of mountains with its spurs 

 and ridges stretching across the states of Kentucky and 

 Tennessee, and breaking up in minor spurs and ridges 

 in the northern counties of our state. The general di- 

 rection of these mountains is nearly that of the river, 

 — north-east, as viewed from our place. This moun. 

 tain range with its ridges from the Kentucky line to 



