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the Erigenia bulbosa of the middle United States. This little 
plant is probably the earliest of the region to bloom (excepting 
the chick-weeds and other plants which never cease blooming). 
For the Republica Oriental has a well-marked spring season, 
however mild its winters may be. 
(To be continued.) 
Another Florida Fern. 
On the south bank of the Miami River, a short distance below 
the rapids, I collected, on the first of March of this year, a fern — 
which appears to be Wephrolepis acuta, Presl., not reported as 
having been found before in the United States. It was very 
abundant at that one place, though not seen elsewhere. Fruit- 
bearing fronds were rare at that time, and the few that were ob_ 
_ tained were past their prime maturity. However, a few sori 
with indusia in good condition remain. Specimens were submit- 
ted to Prof. Eaton, and he says: ‘‘I have very little doubt that 
your fern is really Vephrolepis acuta, a somewhat rusty-pubescent 
variety.” IsAAC HOLDEN. 
[Mr. Holden’s specimens were compared with those of 
Fendler’s Plants of Trinidad, No. 55; Wright’s Plantae Cubenses, 
No. 1,011, and Hayes’ Filices Centrali- American, No. 15, with 
all of which they agree in having almost circular indusia, sub- 
peltate in the attachment.—ED. ] 
Index to Recent American Botanical Literature. 
Aquatic Plants of the vicinity of San Diego.—C. R. Orcutt. 
(West. Am. Sci., iii, pp. 123-126.) 
Botany of California and Parts Adjacent.—Studies in the.—V1. 
Edward Lee Greene. (Bull. Cal. Acad. Sci., ii., pp. 377-418; 
reprinted.) 
Professor Greene’s sixth contribution to the Botany of our 
West Coast, opens with “ Notes on the Botany of Santa Cruz 
Island,” giving a most interesting account of the character of the 
Flora and its relations to that of the other islands of our 
“Southwestern Archipelago,” and of the mainland. He sug- 
_ gests that many of the rarer species of Southern California have 
originated on these islands and they may have formerly been 
