Ferns by the Georgian Bay

Abstract

Owen Sound has long had an outstanding reputation as a location for rare ferns and that is the writer's excuse for this endeavor to clutter up the pages of our JOURNAL with some remarks on a trip to that region. It must be thirty-five years since Dr. J. Scott, of Southampton, Ontario, published his find of Asplenium Ruta-muraria on Flowerpot Island. This island is two miles off the head of the Bruce Peninsula, which is the finger that separates the Georgian Bay from Lake Huron, and which reaches out to within twenty or thirty miles of Manitoulin Island. Ever since then the writer