CATALOGUE. 
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FILICES. 
BY PEOF. DANIEL C. EATON.. 
PoLYPODiUM VULGARE, L. Japan, Manchuria, and Turkey in Asia ; all 
Europe ; Northern Africa and the Cape ; Madeira, Azores and Canaries. 
North America from the Atlantic to Alaska, Vancouver's Island and Oregon, 
and southward to the mountains of Alabama and Colorado, (694 Hall & Har- 
bour; G88 Vasey, a dwarf alpine form;) the true form is yet to appear from 
California. From a rocky side-gorge of Cottonwood Canon in the Wahsatch ; 
7,000 feet altitude; the specimens not unlike the usual smaller forms of the 
Atlantic States. (1,357.) 
Adiantum pedatum, L. Japan, Manchuria and Northern India. North 
America from Canada to North Carolina, and westward to California, Oregon 
and Alaska. With the last; 6-7,000 feet altitude. (1,358.) 
Adiantum Capillus-Veneris, L. From Japan and China to Western 
Euro^^e ; Southern Africa ; islands of the Atlantic, and the AVest Indies. In 
America from North Carolina to the Indian Territory and southward to Bra- 
zil and J uan Fernandez. Southern Utah, near St. George, (Dr. Palmer, 1870.) 
Pteris aquilina, L. Throughout the United States and nearly through- 
out the world. In the Washoe and East Humboldt Mountains, Nevada, and 
in Provo Canon in the Wahsatch; 6,000 feet altitude. (1,359.) 
Cheilanthes lanuginosa, Nutt. From Illinois to the Eocky Mountains 
of British America, and southward to New Mexico and Arizona. California 
is given as its western range by Hooker & Baker, but probably incorrectly. 
On conglomerate and on limestone in the Wahsatch ; 5-6,000 feet alti- 
tude. (1,360.) 
Pell^a Breweri, D. C. Eaton. Froc. Amer. Acad. 6. 555. Rootstock 
ascending, short, covered, like the bases of the shining brown very fragile 
stalks, wdth abundant narrow crisped fulvous chaffy scales ; fronds 2-6' high, 
pinnate, the pinnae short-stalked, membranaceous, mostly 2-parted, the upper 
segment larger ; segments and upper pinnae ovate or triangular-ovate, in the 
fertile fronds narrower and margined with a rather broad continuous involu- 
cre ; veins evident, repeatedly forked. — Common on exposed rocks in the 
higher canons of the Sierras of California, and eastward in the East Humboldt 
Mountains and in the Wahsatch ; 7-9,000 feet altitude. The stalks are seem- 
