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and covered with magnificent forests of immense trees. It was 
just on the northern border of this region that Rhododendron 
Vaseyit was discovered a few years ago. It offers an inviting 
field for botanical exploration. Well developed fruit of Magnolia 
cordata is not known. 
Fern Notes, VIII. 
By Gro. E. DAVENPORT. 
Aspidium Lonchitis, Swartz.—This fine evergreen fern was 
found growing on Mt. Peddo (Adams), Washington Territory, 
in August, 1885, by W. N. Suksdorf, of White Salmon. The | 
plants were growing on shady rocks at an altitude of from 6,000 to 
7,000 feet, and show all the typical characteristics of the species. 
One interesting dwarf specimen has perfectly fruited, excessively 
spiny fronds only 3 inches high, and from % to 34 of an inch 
broad. 
Aspidium aculeatum, Swartz, var. scopulinum, D. C. Eaton, 
Botrychium ternatum Swartz—previously collected in a larger 
form in Falcon Valley, and on the Columbia; Botrychium ma- 
tricariefolium, A. Br., Botrychium simplex, Hitch., plants very 
fleshy, and Lycopodium alpinum, L., were also collected on Mt. 
Peddo. . 
The specimens of 2. ¢ernatum partake of the California forms 
of that species, but are much smaller. Those of B. matricarie- 
Jolium well sustain the character of the species for variation, and 
their buds conform to the characters previously pointed out. 
(Torr. Club Bulletin, vol. vi., pp. 194, 196, 198; vol. xii., p. 23.) 
Mr. Suksdorf, who is doing excellent service for the flora of | 
his region, has also collected an interesting form of Polypodium — 
vulgare, L., with long, narrow fronds, and very bluntly rounded 
obtuse divisions; an alpine form of Polypodium falcatum, Kellog, 
not readily determined but for the very decided liquorice-tast- 
ing root-stock; Jsoetes Nuttallii, A. Br., Marsilia vestita, H. 
and G., and Azolla Caroliniana, Willd. 
TEXAN FERNS.—From J. Reverchon, Dallas, Texas, I have 
received one of the most interesting and valuable collections of 
ferns made for a long time, the following being of special interest — 
to botanists : 
Pellea aspera, Baker.—Fine specimens sparingly collected on 
