298 THE CANADIAN NATURALIST. [Vol. ix. 



Aspidium fragrans, Swartz. — Fine specimens were found near 

 Hemmingford last September. 



Woodsia glabella, — Fronds tufted, light green on both sides 

 and smooth throughout, 2 to 4 inches long, | to | inch wide, 

 narrow linear, or linear-lanceolate pinnule. Pinnae broadly- 

 ovate with a somewhat wedge-shaped base, mostly alternate, cut 

 into from 3 to 7 oblong or rounded lobes ; crowded at apex, and 

 more distant at the base where they are rounder in form and 

 almost sessile on the rachis. 



Stalks very short, one inch or less, dark-brown, and falling 

 away at the joints. 



Roots black, wiry and branching. 



Fruit-dots borne on the back of the forked free veins, covering 

 underside of lobes, and soon becoming almost hidden by the 

 long cilia of the indusium. 



This rare and pretty dwarf fern was found on the precipitous 

 cliffs between Capes Gaspe and Rozier, at an elevation of about 

 1000 feet above the sea, and differs from the plant collected on 

 Mount Mansfield, Vermont, and figured in Prof. D. C. Eaton's 

 " Ferns of North America," in having the pinnae more crowded, 

 and the apices of the fronds more obtuse. As this is a northern 

 species, it probably becomes more slender in form and less sturdy 

 in habit as it travels southwards. 



Cystopteris fragilis, var. A. dtpauperata. — Fronds 2 to 4 

 inches long, including the stalks (which occupy from a third to 

 half the length), 7 to 11 lines wide, rather slender, curved, 

 lanceolate, or oblong-lanceolate in shape ; pinnate or sub-bipinnate. 

 Pinnae are rather crowded and erect at the apex of frond, becom- 

 ing more spreading and distant from each other as they descend ; 

 upper ones attenuate-ovate in form, lower ones rather obliquely 

 triangular-ovate. 



Pinnules obtuse at apex and very irregular in outline, being 

 oblong, wedge-shaped, ovate, or obovate, with crenate, dentate 

 or truncate apices, those on the posterior side of the pinnae being 

 mostly contracted, or shorter than the anterior ones, the basal 

 ones being connected by a very narrow wing. 



Veins simple or forked. 



Stalks bright-brown up to the basal pair of pinnae, thence 

 passing into pale green ; smooth throughout, a few chaffy scales 

 at the extreme base only. 



