﻿THE FERN BULLETIN 



Vol. XVII APRIL, 1909 No. 2 



NOTES ON NEPHRODIUM HYBRIDS. 



By E. J. Win slow. 



On the Fourth of July, 1905 I was in Barton Land- 

 ing, Orleans Count)', Vermont, and, driven to botaniz- 

 ing to get away from the noise, I ventured to try what 

 I then considered a rather unpromising strip of swamp 

 stretching along one side of the intervale just below 

 the village. The swamp was quite heavily wooded, 

 very wet, and in quite a primeval condition with fallen 

 trees in all stages of decay and a rich growth of plant 

 life. 



I noticed with some curiosity frequent clusters of 

 Nephrodiuin marginal c which usually grows in drier 

 situations, and many plan':s of N. crista! urn that seemed 

 unusually broad and lax but did not quite fit the con- 

 ception I then had of N. Clintonianum. One plant 

 that I collected struck me as intermediate between N. 

 marginalc and N. crisfatum and I wrote Mr. A. A. 

 Eaton mentioning it as probably a hybrid. 



Circumstances prevented any further exploration in 

 that vicinity until the summer of 1907. By that time 

 I was fully impressed with the interesting character of 

 some of my previous collection and took the first op- 

 portunity to visit the swamp prepared to make a good 

 representative collection. I divided this collection into 

 two parts and carried one to North Easton and laid it 

 before Mr. Eaton. He pronounced most of my crista- 

 tums, — "Clmionimmm " suggested that two or three 



