In the summer of 1961 I was walking through a field in Towson, Md. when I saw what appeared to be a manhole. Actually, it was more like a small well with water in it and there were ferns growing out of the rocks near the top. Since I couldn’t identify them, I took a plant to Mr. Richard C. Ward, of Guilford College, and he told me that it was Pteris cretica (L.) Small. This plant heretofore has been found in the United States only in Florida.