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THE FERN BULLETIN 



On September 12th I returned to Port Hope and 

 spent a fortnight in scouring the neighborhood. 

 Briefly the results are as follows : On the outskirts of 

 the town in rolling country extendng over half a 

 square mile which we call Monkey Mountain I have 

 found the adder's-tongue abundant up and down and 

 on both banks of three separate brooks as well as in the 

 folds of the grassy valleys that traverse the district. 

 In similar country near Quay's crossing, four miles 

 north of the town, I have found six distinct colonies 

 one of them numbering many hundreds of plants. In 

 similar country six miles east of the town I have 

 found three very large and populous colonies of this 

 quaint little fern. 



On October 3rd, while walking across country 

 some seven miles north-east of here, I found three 

 more stations for Ophioglossum. The first two con- 

 taining each a few plants faded and with fertile spike 

 in the proportion of 30 to 60 percent. Both had the 

 plants growing on peaty hummocks of turf grass 

 within or round the margin of marshes filled with 

 Nephrodium thelypteris. The third containing some 

 hundreds of plants in a dry hummocky pasture. Many 

 of the plants were quite green with fruit spikes not yet 

 fully grown. 



I may add that while "old pastures" seem its fav- 

 ored location these are never the lush green grass of 

 cow pastures, but upland meadows of the sheep pasture 

 sort. The grass is more like mountain turf, often with 

 an admixture of moss and a diminutive cyperus. The 

 hummocks upon which it grows plentifully are usually 

 rotted open at the top and not seldom crowned with 

 the barren fronds of Nephrodium thelypteris or 

 stunted Onoclea sensibilis. The adder's-tongue is us- 



