344 Buso: A List OF THE FERNS OF TEXAS 
Having collected a number of ferns in Texas myself and been 
instrumental in the discovery of several hitherto unreported species 
by mentioning to Mr. Reverchon certain others noticed while pass- 
ing through the eastern part of the state, I have prepared the 
following list, with some remarks upon the species. I have not 
seen a complete set of Nealley’s collection of Texas ferns, being 
able to examine only those in the herbarium of the Missouri Bo- 
tanical Garden and a few in Mr. Reverchon’s herbarium; Mr. 
Reverchon has sent me a beautiful series obtained by him in the 
state, comprising about thirty species, a set of which has been 
deposited in the herbarium of the Missouri Botanical Garden; and 
Professor Trelease has lately acquired for the same collection all 
of the Texas ferns collected by Mr. Jermy. 
The number of ferns now known to occur within the state is 
fifty-nine, as compared with thirty-four in 1883, and from six- 
teenth place on the list in representation of species, Texas has risen 
to the second or possibly first place in the list, having more species 
than were credited to New York by Davenport in 1883. The 
chief sources drawn upon for this paper are the collections of 
Nealley, Reverchon, Jermy and myself, which are preserved in the 
herbarium of the Missouri Botanical Garden and which I was able 
to examine through the kindness of Professor William Trelease. 
I have also consulted Davenport's paper, as mentioned above, 
Coulter’s Flora of Western Texas, Britton & Brown’s Illustrated 
Flora, Underwood’s Our Native Ferns, 1st and 6th editions, the 
Fern Bulletin, and the various revisions by Mrs, Britton and Pro- 
fessor Underwood.* 
That the list here presented comprises all the species of ferns 
of Texas is not very probable, as future researches in the extreme 
southern and eastern portions of the state will doubtless disclose 
several more species, 
* Since this paper was prepared one by Mr. Reverchon an the Fern Flora of Texas 
has appeared in the Fern Bulletin (11: 33-38. Ap 1903), but this has added to 
the list only two species, Ophioglossum pusillum and Dryopteris Floridana, both 
reported by J. M. Fetherolf from Newton County. 
