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and not far west of it. It may be of interest to add 

 that it is not given in the catalogue of Ohio Plants by 

 Kellerman and Werner, published about 1895. This 

 may imply that it was found since that time, and may 

 point to its discovery in places farther west where it is 

 not yet known to occur. In the work on the "Flower- 

 ing Plants and Ferns Indigenous to Indiana," by 

 Stanley Coulter (1910) it is said of this fern "Found 

 throughout the state in various situations; most 

 abundant on open hillsides." One of the counties 

 named in Steuben, which is at the northeast corner of 

 the state, bordering therefore on Ohio and Michigan, 

 and but a short way from the west end of Lake Erie. 

 The three remaining counties named are Clark, 

 Floyd, and Gibson, at the southern end of the state 

 and on or near the Ohio river, and are the same as 

 those given in the catalogue of 1881 by the editors of 

 the Botanical Gazette In the Fern Bulletin for Janu- 

 ary, 1909, F. C. Greene has some "Notes on Indiana 

 Ferns," naming six counties and the farm of the State 

 University — doubtless adding the seventh — as the 

 basis for the notes. Dicksonia is given as found in 

 three of these, all near the Ohio river, adding Martin 

 and Orange counties to those of the previous lists. 

 One of the counties given by Mr. Greene, Kosciusco, 

 is in the northern part of the state, but the fern is not 

 listed with those found there. For Illinois but one 

 station is reported in Patterson's catalogue of the 

 plants of the state, published in 1876. This is Wa- 

 bash County in the southern part of the state, or about 

 in the range of the five counties in southern Indiana. 

 Paterson's list is an old one, but I have seen no men- 

 tion of the fern as found elsewhere since it was issued. 

 Dr. Lapham gives it in a list published in 1857, a bare 



