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tains, Arizona, C. G. Pringle, September 13, 1884. It was also dis- 
tributed as O. valgatum mucronatum by G. D. Butler, in 1875, from 
Indian Territory below the Arkansas and Red River and is abundant 
at the highest elevations of the Sierra de San Francisquito, Lower 
California, T. S. Brandegee, October 18, 1890; on the flat top of 
a limestone ledge in northwest Arkansas, April, 1880, F. L. 
Harvey ; moist spot in the cedar glades at Lavigne, Tennessee, 
A. Gattinger, May 16, 1882; dry open woods and cedar groves, 
Bowling Green, Kentucky, Sadie F. Price. An unusually large 
and deformed specimen was collected by Prof. Underwood on 
the campus of Indiana University at Bloomington, Indiana, June, 
1893, and W. Alphonso Murrill has collected it this year at 
Staunton, Virginia. 
3. OPHIOGLOSSUM ARENARIUM N. sp. 
Plants 5-18 cm. high, rootstock slightly thickened, bearing 1 
or often 2 fertile plants and large fleshy roots; petiole 1-4 cm. 
long partially or rarely entirely subterranean; sterile lamina 2-5 
cm. long, 5-12 mm. wide, lanceolate with a long tapering base, 
apex obtuse, rarely acute or apiculate, fleshy becoming wrinkled 
when dry, not pellucid; basal veins 5-7, the median straighter and 
distinct almost to apex, the lateral more or less parallel and con- 
nected by short oblique veinlets, forming long narrow areolae in 
the centre of the leaf with a few faint free or anastomosing vein- 
lets, and much shorter irregular areolae toward the margin; 
epidermal cells sinuous, stomata numerous; peduncle arising from 
the base of the sterile lamina, 5-9 cm. long; spike 1-3 cm. long, 
often twisted, apiculate with 12-26 pairs of sporangia; spores .04— 
-O5 mm. in diameter, reticulations indistinct or completely obliter- 
ated in the ripe spore by numerous minute irregular thickenings, 
forming a warty surface. 
Gregarious in a single colony of hundreds of plants, forming a 
patch five feet in diameter, of a yellow color when mature, grow- 
ing not far from the beach, under oaks, cedar and holly in sandy 
soil at Holly Beach, New Jersey, July 3, 1897, discovered by 
Joseph Crawford and Charles L. Pollard. 
4. Opuioctossum CALIFoRNICUM Prantl. 
O. vulgatum Cleveland, Bull. Torr. Club, 9: 5 5. 1882. : 
O. Californicum Prant\, Jahrb. d. K. Bot. Gart. Berl. 3: 315. 
4.7. fig. 11. 1884. 
