360 
255. Hierochloa australis, K. & S.—Com. ee 
256. Panicum miliaceum.—Com. 8th Ave. July. 
257. Setaria verticillata, S. glauca and S. viridis. H. Pt., with 
Crypsis schoenoides, Lam. 
258. Tragus racemosus, Desf. (Lappago recemosa, Schreb; Cenchrus | 
racemosus, L.)—8th Ave., 1878, King. Reported also’ at 
Philadelphia by Mr. Martindale. 
Nov. rst 1879. ADDISON- BROWN. 
§ 359. New or Little-known Ferns of the United States, No. 7. 
21. Pellza andromedefolia, var. rubens:—Upper surface of pin- 
nules and the involucres deep red, otherwise like the type. 
This beautiful variation of a well-known Californian fern has been 
sent to me several times by Mrs. Cooper, who has not stated the exact 
locality where it was found, but it was probably not far from Santa 
Barbara. In the dried specimens the color is a dark blood-red, but 
in the living plant the color must be much brighter. Young fronds of 
Adiantum macrophyllum and Blechnum serrulatnm, and of a few other 
ferns are often very prettily tinged with red. Polypodium appendicu- 
Zatum of Klotzsch has the rachis and veins colored bright red; but 
I do not know of any other fern besides the one here described which 
has the whole upper surface red in the mature frond. The rachises 
are colored, but less vividly than the pinnules. 
22. Aspidium Oreopteris, Swartz —‘‘ Caudex short, erect or de- 
cumbent, copiousiy scaly : stipites short, tufted, scaly below : fronds 
1}—2 feet long, firm-membranaceous, broad-lanceolate, gradually 
tapering and attenuated below, glandular; pinnz two to three inches 
long, patent, sessile, from a broad base lanceolate-acuminate, deeply 
(more than half way down) pinnatifid, from near the middle of the 
frond gradually becoming shorter downward, more distant and del- 
toid, the lowest less than an inch long; segments plane, nearly entire, 
oblong, very obtuse; veins simple or forked: sori quite marginal; 
involucres very delicate, membranaceous, more or less toothed at the 
margin, soon obsolete ; rachis often subulato-squamose; costz pu- 
bescent.”—Hooker, British Ferns, t. 14. 
Hab.—Unalaska, collected in 1878 by Mr. S. M. Turner, who 
sent with it this note: “Abundant enough; grows four feet high in 
patches of many yards square, in the ravines and wet places.” This 
fern has been attributed to America on the strength of a frond of 
unknown origin found in the herbarium of Mr. Dawson Turner, and 
of another in the collection of Rev. W. A. Leighton, said to be from 
Vermont. The present specimens consist of five tronds, evidently 
selected beause they were smaller than most of those seen in Una- 
laska, being only about fifteen inches long. One of them is so young 
as to retain the indusium. There can be no doubt of the origin of 
the specimens, or that they are true A. Oreopteris. The species is 
common in Europe, from Lapland to Spain and Madeira in the west 
to Lithuania and the Polish provinces in the east. It has also been 
collected in Asia Minor, but is unknown throughout Siberia. Mr, 
Turner’s other Unalaska Ferns are Polypodium vulgare, Adiantum 
pedatum, Cryptogramme acrostichoides, Phegopteris polypodivides, Ph. 
