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3. Pelleea Wrightiana, Hooker.—Mr. Baker has, I think, very prop- 
erly united this with P.longimucronata, but one of Sir. Wm. Hooker's 
names must be kept for the species, for there is a Pellwa mucronata 
of Fée, a simple pinnate species from Mexico, which antedates the 
same name as applied to the New Mexican species in the Botany 
of the Mexican Boundary. Mr. T. 8. Brandegee, of Canon City, 
Colorado, has recently sent excellent specimens of P. Wrightiana. 
4. Notholena Newberryi, n. sp.—Stems tufted, 3-5 inches long, 
slender, nearly black, when young whitish-tomentose, at length 
nearly smooth; fronds as long as the stipes, lanceolate-oblong, cov- 
ered with a dense whitish tomentum of slender entangled hairs, most 
densely beneath, tri-quadripinnate ; ultimate pinnules roundisb- 
obovate, very closely placed, }-3 a line broad, entire or slightly 
" erenate; sporangia rather large, at length apparent in the mass of 
tomentum.—San Diego, California, Dr. Newberry, Prof. Wood. 
Abundant in the Temescal range, Southern Cal., Prof Brewer. 
This Fern I have had for many years, and at first supposed it to be 
Cheilanthes tomentosa, then a whiter form of Ch. Hatoni, and then 
a new species of Cheilanthes. On careful examination, however, I 
find no trace of involucre, even on fruiting specimens. The plant 
very much resembles small specimens of the Ferns just referred to, 
but is whiter, and much more heavily covered with tomentum. In 
Notholena it comes nearest to WV. mollis, Kze, from South America, 
but is much more delicate, and differs in many other important 
respects. D. C. Eaton. 
New Haven, Feb. 22, 1873. 
18. Mistletoe.—I was interested in Mr. Hall’s article on the mistle- 
toe. The American species of this plant, Phoradendron flaves- 
cens, grows also on apple-trees. I have not met with it north of 
New Jersey, and have seen it there only on the Vyssa multiflora. 
But in Bourbon County, Kentucky, I have seen it on the oak (@. 
macrocarpon) Gleditschia, dEsculus glabra, and the apple, also on 
Robinia. Uhave been taught that its place was on the oak; again, 
on ancient pines ; imagine then my surprise at this abnormal con- 
duct ! O. R. Witus. 
19. Apocynum androszemifolium—This plant grows in great 
abundance, in my neighborhood, in neglected fence corners, and upon 
the edges of copses. It flowers every year profusely, but I have 
_hever yet seen it in fruit, nor has my gardener, an intelligent and 
competent botanist, who has carefully searched for a fruiting speci- 
men for twenty years. A. C. GREENE. 
Frostsure, Md. 
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