I went to Robert Waters's house.

I daresay Waters's story will tally with yours.

Waters's house offered him, too, a strategic advantage.

He regained an upright position and stood listening to the startled and indignant exclamations of his gaoler as she read the boatswain's permit: "This is to give notice that I, George Benn, being of sound mind and body, have told Ned Travers to pretend to be a burglar at Mrs. Waters's.

Cryptogramma densa (From Waters's "Ferns," Henry Holt & Co.)] (3) DENSE CLIFF BRAKE Cryptográmma densa.

Cheilanthes alabamensis (From Waters's "Ferns," Henry Holt & Co.)]

Cheilanthes Féei (From Waters's "Ferns," Henry Holt & Co.)] 5.

Asplenium pinnatifidum a, Small Plants from Harper's Ferry; b, Sori on Young Fronds (From Waters's "Ferns," Henry Holt & Co.)]

Asplenium ebenoides a, from Virginia; b, from Alabama; c, from Maryland (From Waters's "Ferns," Henry Holt & Co.)]

Asplenium Bradleyi a, from Maryland; b, from Kentucky (From Waters's "Ferns," Henry Holt & Co.)] (7) BRADLEY'S SPLEENWORT.

[Illustration: The same split lengthwise (From Waters's "Ferns," Henry Holt & Co.)]

[Illustration: Sori of New York Fern (From Waters's "Ferns," Henry Holt & Co.)]

[Illustration: Sori of Osmunda regalis (From Waters's "Ferns," Henry Holt & Co.)] (2) INTERRUPTED FERN.

" [Illustration: Osmunda cinnamomea, var. glandulosa (From Waters's "Ferns," Henry Holt & Co.)]

Botrychium virginianum (From Waters's "Ferns," Henry Holt & Co.)] Prince Edward Island, Minnesota, south to Florida and Texas, and north to Newfoundland and Labrador.

[Illustration: Fruiting Pinnules of Filmy Fern (From Waters's "Ferns." Henry Holt & Co.)]