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BEAUTIFUL FERNS. 
Dicksonia pubescens, Swartz, in Schkuhr, Krypt. Gew., p. 125, t. 13 1. — 
Presl, Tent. Pterid., p. 136. 
Dicksonia punctiloba. Hooker, Sp. FiL, i, p. 79. — Hooker & Baker, 
Syn. Fil., p. 55. — Fee, Gen. Fil., p. 355. 
Aspidium punctilobum, Willdenow, Sp. PL, v, p. 279. — Pursh, FI. Am. 
Sept., ii, p. 664. 
Sitolobium punctilobum, J. Smith. 
Dicksonia punctilobula, Gray, Manual, ed. i, p. 629, etc. — Kunze, in 
Sill. Journ., July, 1848, p. 87; in Linnaea, xxiii, p. 249. — 
Darlington, FI. Cestr., ed. iii, p. 394. — Mettenius, Fil. Hort. 
Lips., p. 105. — Eaton, in Chapman’s Flora, p. 597. — William- 
son, Ferns of Kentucky, p. 119, t. xlvi. 
Nephrodium punctilobulum, Michaux, FI. Bor. -Am., ii, p. 268. 
Aspidium punctilobulum, Swartz, Syn. Fil., p. 60. 
DennstcBdtia punctilobula, Moore, Index Fil., p. xcvii, 307. — Lawson, 
in Canad. Nat., i, p. 287. 
Hab. — Moist woods, and often in low grassy places; a common 
fern in New Brunswick, Canada, New England and the Middle States 
extending westward to Indiana, and possibly farther, and southward as 
far as Central Alabama, where it was found on the cliffs of the Cohaba 
River by Professor Eugene A. Smith. It is not mentioned in the cat- 
alogues of plants of Wisconsin, nor does Professor Harvey report it as 
found in Arkansas. It is probably confined to Eastern North America, 
although Kunze claimed to have specimens from the West Indies. 
Description: — The root-stock creeps extensively an inch 
or two below the surface of the ground. It is about a line 
and a half or two lines thick, perfectly round, and nearly 
naked, bearing instead of chaff a very scanty covering of 
