CONNECTICUT STATIONS FOR ASPLENIUM 

 MONTANUM 



By C. B. Graves. 



INASMUCH as this fern reaches its northeastern limit, so far 

 as known, in Connecticut, a brief statement of its distribu- 

 tion in this State may be of interest. 



It was first discovered at Lantern Hill in New London county, 

 and that station still remains the easternmost. The fern was 

 found there in April, 1882, by Messrs. Fuller and W. A. Setchell 

 (now Professor of Botany in University of California), and in 

 December of the same year independently by the writer. These 

 collections were reported by Prof. D. C. Eaton in the Bulletin of 

 the Torrey Botanical Club for March, 1883. Previous to that 

 time this fern was not known east of the mountains of Pennsyl- 

 vania. Lantern Hill lies on the western edge of the town of 

 North Stonington and about ten miles from the shore of Fisher's 

 Island Sound. It is a precipitous elevation of nearly pure quartz, 

 520 feet high, with wild and picturesque surroundings, of great 

 interest geologically as well as botanically. The fern grows in 

 considerable abundance at several points on the sides of the cliffs 

 both of the main hill and the adjacent ones. 



The second station was found by Mr. Gerald Waldo, and lies 

 less than twenty miles northwest of the first in the southwest part 

 of the town of Scotland, in Windham county. In October, 1889, 

 I found an abundance of fine plants at the "Devil's Hopyard," 

 a wild valley situated about twenty miles west of New London, 

 in the east part of East Haddam, Middlesex county. The rock 

 here is for the most part a mica schist, and holds the fern in the 

 crevices of the shaded and often overhanging cliffs. 



The fourth station was discovered by Dr. Alexander W. 

 Evans of Yale University, who found Asplenium montanum 

 growing on the cliffs bordering the Naugatuck river near " High 

 Rock Grove," in the town of Beacon Falls, New Haven county. 

 I am indebted to Dr. Evans for information regarding this locality 

 and the second above mentioned, specimens from which are con- 

 tained in the Eaton Herbarium. 



Finally, this past season, I detected the fern at another point 

 in New London county, finding a few plants on cliffs near Ayer's 

 Gap, in the north part of the town of Franklin. Upon consult- 

 ing the map it is seen that of the five stations mentioned, four 



