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since its re-discovery by Mr. Shockley in 1878, the collections of 

 J. Donnell Smith, Miss Reynolds and A. H. Curtiss have left no 

 excuse for anyone's being without a specimen. 



Cheilanthes Lindheimeri has also been placed within the reach 

 of all through the recent collections of H. H. Rusby, C. Gr. Pringle 

 and others, who have found it plentiful in New Mexico and Arizona 

 — it being especially abundant along the foot-hills in the mountain 

 ranges of the south-eastern portion of the last named territory. 



In making up a list of ferns considered rare, or difficult to ob- 

 tain when the writer began his herbarium in 1873, the following 

 may be given: 



During the succeeding five years very little or no decided 

 change took place in the status of any of these species, while at the 

 close of that period the list might have been increased by the ad- 

 dition of the following: 



70. 



71. 



72. 



73. 



74. 



64. 

 65. 

 66. 



67. 

 68. 

 69, 



Polypodium pectinatum. 



Notholama Parry i. 

 tenera. 

 Cheilanthes leucopoda. 

 Clevelandii. 



Cooperse. 



75. 



Pteris serrulata. 

 Adiantum tenerum. 

 Asplenium firmum. 



cicutarium. 

 Aspidium unitum. 

 Ophioglossum palmatum. 



