Adiantum pcdatum L. Maidenhair Fern. Common through- 

 out the State. 



Asplenium angustifoliutn Michx. N arrow- leaved Spleenwort. 

 Common in damp, rich woods. The most luxuriant plants I have 

 found are in Barren county in a beech grove, and in W arren 

 County in the depths of Wolfs sink, a 90-foot sink-hole or cave 

 entrance near Sunnyside. The fronds measure five feet in 

 length. Large forest trees grow from the bottom of the sink 

 and the only means of descent is by a rude ladder made be- 

 tween two tree trunks. Legend says this is the original ladder 

 used by the Indians. 



Asplenium Bradlcyi D. C. Eaton. Prof. Hussey, who first 

 found this rare fern in Kentucky, thus describes the region in 

 which it grows : "All the water courses in Edmonson county, 

 even in the spring branches, take their rise between a series of 

 steep cliffs. This water shed is intersected on either side by 

 deep, high-walled ravines whence gush forth cool springs which 

 either sink in the porous sandstone or plunge headlong into 

 the rapid creeks that flow into Green river. Under these over- 

 hanging sand-rocks, sheltered from the sure and sweeping winds, 

 are sometimes spaces of vast extent where the aborigines hgd 

 their homes, as evinced by the numerous fragments of flint and 

 by the mortar holes in the detached masses of sand-rock. On 

 one of these sandstone cliffs, I find A. Bradlcyi." In 1896 I visited 

 this region for the express purpose of finding the fern, but though 

 I searched a number of similar localities only found it on the 

 same cliff. It had spread over the entire wall of rock and few 

 plants grew low down. They were all fine, large plants. I 

 hope no fern vandal will visit this station and exterminate it. 

 It is 'far from the maddening crowd' and I reached it by stage, 

 private carriage and farm wagon. The fern has also been found 

 in Grayson and Warren counties. 



Asplenium ebeneum Ait. Ebony Spleenwort. One of our 

 commonest species. The negroes seem to coin names for plants* 



