Thomas N. McCoy, a well known collector of the Kentucky fern flora, presented a gift of numerous fern specimens to Murray State University in the spring of 1967. These specimens, many determined by R. T. Clausen, E. T. Wherry, and W. H. Wagner, formed a nucleus from which our prior collections by D. F. Austin, J. L. Gentry, G. E. Hunter and H. J. Rogers could be authenticated.