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Osmunda rcgalis L. Royal Fern. This species was once 

 abundant in Edmonson county, especially near Chalybeate 

 Springs, but it has been uprooted and carried away by the 

 guests at the hotel until little of it remains. Another cause of 

 its disappearance in certain localities is that the ubiquitous saw- 

 mill and the agent for cross-ties have laid bare many of the 

 haunts of this shade and moisture loving species. Where I once 

 found fine fronds measuring four or five feet in length, I now 

 find only stunted and dwarfed specimens. 



SCHIZAEACEAE. 



Lygodium pahnatitm Sw. Climbing Fern. Found only in 

 Rockcastle and Laurel counties. Mr. Williamson mention? that 

 it was reported from there from three different places in 1878. 

 It was once abundant at Cumberland Falls, but so many col- 

 lectors visit the latter place, where Adiantiim capillus-veneris 

 also grows, that it is to be feared both will be exterminated. It 

 was once so plentiful there as to resemble tangles of dodder. 



HYMENOPHYLLACEAE. 



Trichomanes radicans Sw. Filmy Fern. Rare. Has been 

 reported once or twice from Laurel county, and Prof. Hussey 

 in his report mentions it from Edmonson county. I found 

 it in 1892 along the Green river in Warren county. It covered 

 a space of four or five square feet and was far under a sandstone 

 cliff. The plants had many dead fronds and few fruiting ones. 

 The trees were being cut away and its days in this spot are 

 probably numbered. In 1900 I visited another station for- it 

 and here it had entirely disappeared. 



POLYPODIACEAE. 



Adiantum capillus-veneris L. Venus' Hair Fern. This 

 species grows in profusion at Burnside, near Cumberland Falls. 

 Fronds of this species were first received by W. M. Linney in 

 1880. He mentioned it to WilHarnson, who wrote an account 

 of it in Torrey Bulletin, 



