In C. F. Millspaugh’s The Living Flora of West Virginia (1913), he reports (p. 195) Thelypteris simulata Nieuwl. (as Dryopteris simulata Davenport) from this State, with the note: “Comparing my specimens from the deep, wet woods of Randolph County with specimens of D. simulata recently sent me by Professor Davenport, I find them identical . . . .