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ferent species in his Eremobrya and Desmobrya divisions, according 

 as their vernation is "articulated'' or ''adherent," and adopts 

 the present species as the type of Fee's genus Nevrodium (Hist. Fil). 



PresI referred it to Palionium\ Desvaux, to Pteropsis\ and Moore, 

 to I>ry?noglossum^ in accordance with J. Smith's earlier views. In 

 view of the many changes which the species has already undergone, 

 there is no certainty that it has yet reached a definite abiding place. 



There is an excellent (colored) plate of a full plant in Hooker's 

 "Filices Exoticae,'' where it is figured (t. 45) as Pteropsis lanceo- 

 lata, Desv., and of a single frond in Lowe's " Exotic Ferns " (Vol. 2, 

 pi. Ixiv), and " Les Fougeres " (p. zi, pi 9), under the name *' Nev- 

 r odium lanceolatum^ Fee/, 



For the benefit of those who may not have access to the authori- 

 ties quoted, I give the following brief description of Mr. Curtiss's 

 specimens: Rootstock creeping; stipes i to 2 inches long; laminae 8 

 to 13 inches long, -J to f of an inch broad, tapering both ways, entire, 

 or slightly sinuose at the margins, midnerve prominent; veins im- 

 mersed, anastomosing, the exterior free, and, as well astheifree vein- 

 lets within the hexagonal areoles, clubbed at their apices; fructifica- 

 tion ante-marginal, in a continuous line near the apex. 



Habitat. — Old Rhodes Key, Florida, on soft-barked trees. Dis- 

 covered by A. H. Curtiss, May, 1881. Heretofore collected in St. 

 Domingo, Jamaica, Martinique, Guadaloupe, Cuba, and not uncom- 

 mon in the West Indies generally. 



Mr. Curtiss's specimens are somewhat narrower than the pub- 

 lished plates and descriptions call for, but some of Chas. Wright's 

 Cuban specimens are quite as narrow. 



Mr. Curtiss having placed in my hands all of his duplicate speci- 

 mens, they will be distributed among the more prominent herbaria as 

 far as their limited number will go. 



Cheilanthes tomentosa, Link. — Mr. C. G. Pringle sends speci- 

 mens of this rare fern from the Santa Catalina and Santa Rita 

 Mountains, Arizona, and reports Aspidium patens and Woodwardia 

 radicans from the same region. 



Pellaea gracilis. Hook. — Shortly after reading Mr, Rusby's 

 interesting notes on the New Mexican ferns in the Botanical Gazette^ 

 in which he describes the bifurcations of Woodsia Oregana (var. ?), 

 I had occasion to look over my duplicates in order to select a few 

 specimens for a correspondent; when, almost the first thing that met 

 my eye was a double-fronded specimen of this delicate fern (/*. gra- 

 cilis). The stipe had forked near the top into two short divisions, 

 each bearing a perfectly-developed, fertile lamina. 

 Medford, Mass., July, 1881. 



84. New Species of North American Fungi. 



By J. B. Ellis. '^ 



Valsa tuberculosa. — Perithecia 8 — 10, about .018' diameter, 

 subcircinating and buried in a stroma formed entirely of the sub- 

 stance of the bark, (the latter not being discolored, though rendered 

 more compact) and surrounded by a black circumscribing line, which 

 is very distinct and penetrates the wood beneath; ostiola short-cylin- 



