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to retain the name moJlc. which has not only been established for more than a cen- 

 tury, but which has the added merit of admirably expressing the special character 

 of this fern. 



Dryopteris patula (Sw.) Underw. Our Native Ferns, ed. 1, 117. 1893. Axpidium 

 patulum Sw. Vet. Akad. Handl. 1817 : 74. 

 Near Santa Teresa, August 12 (Xo. 2203) ; also same locality, August 10 (No. 3415), 

 small form; and variety chaerophylloides (Moritz) Baker from road between Colotlau 

 and Bolaflos, Jalisco, September 7 to 9 (No. 2837). 



ASPLENIUM. 



Asplenium monanthemum Willd. Sp, PI. 5 : 322. 1810. 



Near Santa Teresa, August 12 (No. 2209); also on the Sierra de los Morones, near 

 Plateado, Zacatecas, September 1 (No. 2726). Specimens monosorous. 

 Asplenium parvulum Mart. & Gal. Mem. Acad. Brux. 15 : GO, 1. 15, f. 3. 1842. 



Near Santa Teresa, August 12 (No. 2201). Plants small but characteristic. Four- 

 nier refers this to A. resiliena Kuntze, and Baker, in the Synopsis, Filicum, placed it 

 under A. trilobum Cav., while Hemsley ' gives it as a synonym for A. trichomanea L. 

 Its affinity, however, is more nearly to A. ebeneitm Ait. under which Hooker placed 

 it as a variety (var. minor), but it has so many distinctive characters that I think 

 Professor Eaton was right in maintaining Martens and Galeotti's name, a position 

 which Mr. Baker himself has more recently taken in his "Summary of New Ferns," 

 Annals of Botany, vol.6. 



CHEILANTHES. 



Cheilanthes aurantiaca Moore, Synopsis, 38 ; Index Fil. 235. C. ochracea Hook, Sp. 

 Fil. 2:114. 1858. 



Near Santa Teresa, August 7 (No. 3427). Not seen in collections very often and 

 apparently not a very common fern. Fournier places it in Fee's Alenritopteris as 

 A.lutea; Pterti lutea Cav.; Pteris aurantiaca Cav. Praeleot. 26(3. 1801. 

 Cheilanthes lendigera Sw. Syn. Fil. 128. 1806. 



Mountains west of Bolanos, September 16 (No. 3717). 



CYSTOPTERIS. 



Cystopteris fragilis (L.) Bernh. Schrad. Nenes .Journ. Bot. 1. pt. 2:26, t. 2. fig. 9 (or 

 7?). 1806. Polypodium, fragile L. Sp. PI, 2: 1091. 1753. 

 Santa Teresa. August 12 (Nos. 2206, 2207); well-developed plants of the common 

 form. 



NOTHOLAENA. 



Notholaena ferruginea Desv. Journ. Bot. Appl. 1 ; 92. 1813. 



Near Plateado, Zacatecas, September 4 (No. 2747); specimens unusually fine. 

 Notholaena nivea Desv. Journ. Bot. Appl. 1 : 93. 1813. 



Sierra Madre west of Bolanos, Jalisco, September 16 (No. 3715); specimens large 

 and line. Near Plateado, Zacatecas, September 4 (No. 3740); smaller plants near 

 variety dealbata Davenport. 



Notholaena schaffneri mexicana Davenport, Gard. and For. 4: 519. 1891. 



Near Monte Escobedo, Zacatecas, August 17 (No. 2262); also Bolafios, Jalisco, 

 September 10 to 19 (No. 2910). 



The species was originally described by Fournier,- from specimens collected in the 

 mountains of San Miguel, September, 1876, by Schanner. In June, 1890, Mr. G. C. 

 Nealley collected in western Texas a few specimens of a fern which Mr. Henry E. 



Biol. Centr. Am. 3 : 610. •• Bull. p, ot y oc (le p rauce) 2 7 : 328. 



