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recognized the plant growing in this country. The 

 report of its occurrence in both Pennsylvania and 

 Ohio, the only reported stations, was made by a botan- 

 ist long since dead and his report was based on some 

 fronds of A. fontanum discovered among other speci- 



ASPLENIUM FONTANUM 



i. Frond natural size. 2. Pinna oi "A. Halleri." 



mens ten years after they had been collected. Most 

 collectors and students are satisfied that the species was 

 reported in this country by mistake, and that the 

 fronds of A. fontanum found with other American 

 species got there through some oversight during the 

 ten years they had lain unnoticed. N At any rate, the 



