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it grows, Bquisetum hyemalc, with lateral branches. E. arvcnse, 

 and E. laevigatum, the latter growing in a calcareous bog up the 

 river. Cystoptcris bulbifcra and Ptcris aquilina are found at 

 Cascade Glen. 



Miss E. C. Almendinger in her list of Ann Arbor plants 

 (1876) adds: Bquisetum syhaticum (rare), E. Huviatilc, Wood- 

 wardia Virginica, Asplenium angustifolium, Phcgopteris hexa- 

 gonoptcra, Nephrodium cristatum Clintonianum. X. novebora- 

 cense, Cystoptcris fragilis, Osmunda Claytoniana, Botrychium 

 obliquum and B. obliquum intermedium (very rare). Miss Clark, 

 1863. 



At no time do I ever remember of seeing Nephrodium mar- 

 ginal, our common wood shield-fern. Its absence from this 

 flora is very striking, when one considers how common it is in 

 the northeastern United States. In Michigan it is said to be 

 only frequent north of the central part of the State. Many other 

 common ferns are wanting. This is particularly true of all rock- 

 loving species, as one very rarely finds an exposed rock surface. 



RAYNAL DODGE. 



It is seldom that a student of ferns engaged for most of his 

 waking hours in commercial pursuits is able to add so much of 

 importance to fern study as has the gentleman whose portrait ap- 

 pears in this issue — Mr. Raynal Dodge of Newburyport. Mass. It 

 is to his activity that we owe not only the discovery of Nephro- 

 dium simulatum, but also of that curious hybrid, Nephrodium cris- 

 tatum X marginale. 



Mr. Dodge is of Puritan ancestry, his family having settled in 

 Xew England in 1627. He was born in Newburyport, Mass., 

 September 9. 1844. Upon his graduation from the local high 

 school he enlisted in the army and served through Banks' cam- 

 paign in Louisiana. He was wounded at the siege of Port Hud- 

 son, June 28, 1863. Returning to his home he took up the trade 

 of machinist, in which he has continued to the present. 



His little book. "The Ferns and Fern Allies of New England." 

 has made his name familiar to all American fern students. In 

 -this book he published the first illustration of Nephrodium simu- 



