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maple such as cover the hills of till of this region. 

 Though often botanizing in the vicinity since 1855 I 

 had not come across it before. Hence I conclude it 

 must be quite rare in this part of Xew York. And 

 from what can be learned by examining the lists and 

 catalogues of plants of Western Xew York it is both 

 rare and locaL Only four stations are mentioned in 

 the catalogue for Rochester and vicinity. (Plants of 

 Monroe County. Xew York, and adjacent territory, 

 Rochester, 1896). It is put down in the catalogue as 

 "rare." An earlier one for Buffalo and its vicinity 

 by David F. Day (Buffalo, 1883), gives only "the 

 southern towns of Erie County." This approaches 

 the station where it was found in Erie Count}', Pa., 

 and lies between that and the locality in Genesee 

 County Xew York. 



The hay-scented fern, common or abundant in many 

 places on the Atlantic slope, becomes scarcer west- 

 ward, and is apparently absent from extended areas. 

 As recorded in lists for the middle west the distribu- 

 tion is somewhat peculiar. According to Macoun's 

 Catalogue of Canadian Plants it keeps well to the 

 north in the province of Ontario and Quebec, being 

 "found in stony pastures, open woods and rocky hill- 

 sides from the Atlantic westward to Georgian Bay." 

 He does not give it for the northern part of Ontario, 

 nor for that portion oi the extreme southwest lying 

 between lakes Huron and Erie and the west end of 

 Lake Ontario. It mav be that A. B. Klugh's Fern- 

 flora for 1906. takes in this part of Ontario when it 

 says that Dicksonia is "common locally as far north as 

 Parry Sound." This station by Parry Sound, 

 Georgian Bay. is the most western mentioned by 



