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Woodwardia cireolata. In Maine — Southport and Foxcroft, M. L. 
Fernald ; Indian Point, Georgetown, G. E. Davenport. In N. H. — 
Seabro.ok and Kingston. In Mass. — Salisbury, Newbury, Koxbury, 
Lynn, etc. New London, Conn., C. B. Graves. Maryland, C. E. 
Waters. “Woodland swamps, thriving best in deep shade, near 
cool, moist hummocks in beds of sphagnum.” — Davenport. Sept. 
Apparently confined to the vicinity of the Atlantic coast. A more 
detailed account by Mr. Davenport is to be found in the Botanical 
Gazette for Dec., 1894, whence much of this description is taken. 
Illustrated in Linncean Fern Bulletin, Vol. iv, No. 3. 
133. D. Thelypteris (L.) Asa Gray. Marsh Fern. Fronds 
1-2 \ feet long ; laminae lanceolate, pinnate; pinnae linear-lanceo- 
late, pinnatifid, the lowermost pair as long as any; margins of the 
pinnules reflexed .over the sori ; veins forked ; indusium smooth; 
spores very dark brown Plant with thicker and darker green fronds 
thanD. simulata. Perfectly sterile in dee|) shade. Swampy fields ; 
very common. August. Over most of the north temperate zone, 
and in South Africa and New Zealand. 
136. D. fragrans (L.) Schott. Fragrant Shield Fern. 
Fronds 4-13 inches long ; laminae tapering both ways from the mid- 
dle, once pinnate; pinnae linear-oblong, pinnatifid, the divisions 
toothed or entire, nearly covered beneath by large, orbicular, rag- 
ged indusia ; sori soon confluent ; stipe short and chaffy. Plant 
aromatic and evergreen. High cliffs; mountains of Northern New 
England. In Maine — Aroostook county, M. L. Fernald. Mt Kineo, 
C. E. Smith. Andover, J. A Allen. Shelburne, N. H., Deane. Al- 
pine cascade and gulch, White mountains, H. Willey . Mt. Mans- 
field and Camel’s Hump, Yt. Middle of August. Asia and America. 
Illustrated by Meehan, Series n, Yol. 1. 
138. D. cristata (L.) A. Gray Crested Fern. Fronds 1-3 
feet long ; laminae linear or lanceolate, once pinnate ; pinnae trian- 
gular-oblong, or the lowest nearly triangular, deeply pinnatifid ; 
segments 6-10 pairs, toothed and serrate ; a row of fruit dots each 
side of the midvein, as near the midvein as margin ; indusium large 
