Field notebooks : Newfoundland, 1927-1937
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8-23-29 Aspidium cristatum Sw.G. 42 = Dryopteris Gray B. P. I 19. Sterile v fertile fronds. Rd shortly east of Highlands Cabin. See Clute 139. Fronds thick, coriaceous, veiny v darker v more bluish green than Osmunda cinnamonea growing near by. 8-23-29 Aspidium Sp. By pool above bridge Highlands Bk. 3 pinnatifid v indusia v raelis glandular. Hence would seem to be A. spinulosum var intermedium but general aspect unlike the form often found in woods around Forest Plain and suggestive of Asplenium Flix femina in yellowish green color, pinnae narrow, less deeply cut than var. intermedium, curved backward. Only the lower pinnae notice- ably spinulose toothed. This has been frequently collected v puzzled over before (e.g. 8-6-29 near land- ing to old houses at mouth of Trout Bk but not recorded in notes). If not a form of var. intermedium, the only possibility seems A. Bottii. But see Clute 142. It does not suggest A. cristatum v this somewhat like it. Is definitely 2-pinnate (3-pinnatifid) almost to the very tip. #6 8-23-29 Lobelia Kalmii L.G 769, B.P.III 303 Fl Rd between School House v Highlands Camp. (See 8-19-29 4-9-5-29