A misidentified specimen of Gymnocarpium dryopteris (L.) Newman has been distributed from the University of North Carolina as Woodsia ilvensis (L.) R. Brown, J. R. Bozeman #10678. This collection in Ashe County, North Carolina represents a record for the Carolinas, since heretofore its southern limit has been given as Virginia (Fernald, 1950; Wherry, 1961).