Reported from the mountains of Virginia. I have seen 
this fern inthe mountains about Chattanooga, Tenn. 
11, ADIANTUM Theophr. 
Adianton autent ex eo dicitur, guod folium, ut Theo- 
Phrastus ait, non madescat:. . . Dodonaeus, 1583. 
Stirp. Hist. 466. 
Handsome ferns preferring rocky woods Leaves vari- 
ous; stipes brown or dark-colored. Sporecases borne at 
the end of the free veinlets and covered by a reflexed 
portion of the leaf-margin. 
t Leaves dichotomously forked. 
1. A. pedatum L. Pl. 5. 
Adianthum fruticosum americanum . [e Virginia, 
John Tradescant] Parkinson, 1640, Theat. Bot. 
1049. f. 3. 
Adiantum fronde supra decomposita bipartita . 
Gron. F\. Virg. 123. 
A. pedatum £. Sp. Pl. 1095. Haton, Ferns 1: 135. 
~t. 18; in Gray Man. 680. Underw., in Il. Fl. 1: 
27; Nat. Ferns 90; in Britt. Man. 8. Clute, Ferns 
242. Waters, Ferns 88. 
MAIDENHAIR FERN. 
Plants 3 dm. or higher; leaves dichotomously forked 
or decompound; pinnules or ultimate divisions triangu- 
lar-oblong, 3 cm. or less in length. 
In rich, deciduous woods. Summer. 
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