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III. Perryville Falls Station 
The Perryville Falls station lies about three miles northeast of the 
Chittenango Falls station, at the point where Canaseraga Creek has formed 
a deep gorge. Scolopendrium was discovered here in 1898 by Miss Murray 
Ledyard of Cazenovia (4). 
In August, 1919, this station was visited and the entire region below the 
falls in which Scolopendrium might be expected to occur was explored. 
At a distance estimated to be 150 yards down stream from the crest of the 
falls and 40 feet above the stream level, a colony of thirteen mature plants, 
three young plants, and two patches of prothallia was located. A little 
to the south of this was a single young plant, and still nearer the stream 
bed one mature plant and a group of prothallia were found. Dr. Petry's 
field notes describing the colony at this time say : 
The plants were vigorous and were fruiting: strongly; the sporangia, however, were 
not nearly mature at this time. The plants here were considerably smaller than those at 
the Chittenango Falls station. There were, nevertheless, the normal number of leaves. 
Altogether it may be said there is no evidence that the colony is not maintaining itself. 
A second visit in October, 1920, showed some surprising facts. The 
colonies were again located and the plants counted. Fifteen mature plants, 
ten young plants, and nineteen groups of prothallia were found. The 
young, straggling plants had become mature plants, and the groups of 
prothallia were in a very flourishing condition. 
It is to be noted that in the cases of both the Chittenango and the 
Perryville Falls stations we have the same physiographic conditions, i.e., 
gorges below waterfalls. In each case the gorge is deep with vertical cliffs 
and steep slopes covered with debris, soil, and broken fragments of the 
thick-bedded, chert-bearing layers of the Onondaga limestone. Scolo- 
pendrium occurs on the west slope of the gorge in each instance, the east 
slope being of an entirely different botanical make-up. 
IV. Jamesville Station 
This is at once the best known and most accessible of the New York 
stations. It consists of a series of colonies scattered through the maze of 
glacial channels and plunge basins lying on either side of the village of 
Jamesville. The colony nearest to Syracuse lies not more than three miles 
outside the city limits, and two colonies {B, fig. 2) lie within the Clarke State 
Reservation. The colonies east from Jamesville lie in very rough country, 
but all are within easy walking distance of trolley lines. In spite of this, 
their exact location is known to relatively few people. 
A. Hewlett's Gorge (Hanging Valley) Substation. The first discovery of 
Scolopendrium in the Jamesville region was made by Mr. Lewis Foote 
(i) in 1866, at Howlett's Gorge, now better known as Hanging Valley. 
An examination of this area in November, 1920, showed a thrifty colony of 
