pinnules are farther apart. Asplenium Bradleyi thrives, and per- 

 haps is at its best, when growing on a rocky wall exposed to the 

 sun. Yet a plant in the moist air of a fernery where it received 

 direct sunlight for only three or four hours, sent out new fronds 

 and produced numerous sori. Cystopteris fragilis growing on a 

 grassy bank is taller, coarser and yellower, than when growing 

 in rich woods, besides being different in genearal appearance. 

 And both of these forms are hardly to be compared with the one 

 found on rocks in moist, shady ravines. — C. E. Waters, Johns 

 Hopkins University, Baltimore, Md. 



AN EXTENSION OF RANGE FOR WOODWARDIA 

 RADICANS. 



WOODWARDIA RADICANS was first discovered in this 

 region in June, 1898. It was found growing in com- 

 pany with Dryopteris munita, Adianttim pedatum y \ox, 

 Polypodium falcatum, etc. It was in fruit at the time of its dis- 

 covery and was still in fruit on my last visit, Nov. 13. I should 

 judge that it is an evergreen, for at the time of the latter visit, all 

 the bracken had been killed by the frost, which had not changed this 

 in the least. The fern grows from a very thick rootstock, which 

 rises to the surface. From this ramify long, tenacious root-fibers, 

 making it extremely hard to pull up. Nearly all the fronds were 

 reclining gracefully, mingling with the fronds of the ferns above 

 mentioned, making a very beautiful picture on the steep bluff 

 forming the seashore. The full-grown plants are from five to six 

 feet high and some of them measure seven feet from the caudex to 

 the extreme end of the frond. 



It seemed fairly abundant in this particular locality, but no- 

 where was it to be found back from the bluff forming the sea 

 wall, not even where a deep gorge ran back, full of a variety of 

 other ferns. In fact it never reached the top of the bluff, which 

 was about fifty feet high, but seemed to be at home near the 

 lower edge, where there was more moisture. It flourished best m 

 a moist, sandy loam in the shade of spreading alders and other 

 trees, both deciduous and evergreen. The whole region presents 

 a semi-tropical aspect. I know of only one other locality where 

 it is found. This is about fifteen miles from the region referred to 

 above. Here also it is confined to the seashore. This would 

 seem to indicate that it can only survive with us in the most 



