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THE FERN BULLETIN 



and here the visitor comes to dine out of a No. 9 shoe 

 box and scale its almost dangerous sides. The bather 

 may take a high dive into its pool on the deep side or 

 the desciple of Izaak Walton may cast his lure. How 

 often it has sat for its picture so that people far away 

 who perchance never never saw or heard of it may 

 have its souvenir post cards. But it is of equal if not 

 greater interest to the botanist for its flora, being one 

 of the three or four stations in Ohio for Asplenium 

 montanum. Small tufts of the plant are found grow- 

 ing below the middle line of the rock, just above high 

 water. And as ice frequently jams at this point form- 

 ing gorges in the valley behind, it is probably not sur- 

 prising that so few plants grow there. According to 

 Keilerman and Werner's "Ohio Plants" 1893, A. mon- 

 tanum is credited to Elyria, Lorain county, Lawrence 

 county, Cayahoga Falls, Summit county and Clifton, 

 Green county. 



In his "Fern Flora of Ohio" Prof. Lewis S. Hop- 

 kins says that it is represented in the Ohio State Her- 

 barium by specimens from Summit county, and records 

 the collection of excellent specimens at Graber's Rocks, 

 Tuscarawas county, Ohio. Having no specimens from 

 other stations grown under different conditions, I am 

 unable to say whether the fronds of my collection are 

 up to the average or not. They are at least very fertile. 

 As the plants are not numerous nor fronds plenty I 

 have taken specimens very gingerly being exceedingly 

 loth to reduce the station by so much as a single plant. 

 As I am sending some of the best fronds collected to 

 the Editor, he will kindly make note in passing, 

 whether he thinks the plants are growing under what 

 is normal or typical environment. They cling by 



