Reported from the mountains of Virginia. I have seen 
this fern in the mountains about Chattanooga, Tenn. 
11. ADIANTUM Theophr. 
Adianton autem ex eo dicitur, quod folium, ut Theo- 
Pphrastus ait, non madescat:. . . Dodonaeus, 1583. 
Stirp. Hist. 466. 
Handsome ferns preferring rocky woods Leaves vari- 
ous; stipes brown or dark-colored. Sporecuses borne at 
the end of the free veinlets and covered by a reflexed 
portion of the leaf-margin. 
1 Leaves dichotomously Sorked. 
1. A. pedatum L. Pio}. 
Adtanthum fruticosum americanum . [e Virginia, 
John Tradescant] Parkinson, 1640, Theat. Bot. 
1049. f. 3. 
Adiantum fronde supra decomposita bipartite . 
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 go; 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. 
Inrich, deciduous woods. | Summer. 
26. 
