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No, i8. Aspidium spinulosum Swariz. The broadly-ovate frond and dark-centered 

 scales of this specimen are usually considered to be characteristic of the var. dilatatmn 

 (Hook. Br. Ferns, t, 19) rather than of the normal spinulosum ; we have this form, but 

 that named var. inteimedium by Eaton, is much more common with us. 



No. ig. Aspidium spinulosum-cristatum Lasch in lift. This is exactly the A. Boottii 

 of Tuckerman, whose name has undoubted priority. Gray and Eaton consider it to be a 

 form of spmulosuin ; my specimens are more cristatum-\<k.s. ; Milde considers it a 

 hybrid of these two species. Its proper name, according to my views, would have been 

 A. crisiatuni var. Boottii. 



No. 20. Aspidium Braunii Spenner. This is exactly our North American plant, my 

 specimens from Tadousac, Temiscouata, the Green Mountains and the White Mountains 

 being all identical with it. Dr. Gray should have written it as A. aculeatutn var. 

 Braunii Doll's Rheinische Flora (1843) p. 21. 



No. 23. Aspidium Filix-mas [Linn.) Sivartz. Agrees well enough with Mrs. Roy's 

 specimens to be considered identical. Prof. Eaton has it from the Rocky Mountains of 

 Colorado, from Lake Superior, and from Greenland ; Sir Wm. Hooker has it (" the 

 normal form,") from California ; and Kunze says he has "seen it from Newfoundland." 



No. 25. Aspleniura Trichomanes Hudson. Exactly ours. 



No. 29. Botrychium matricari^folium Al. Braun. Identical with our forms. I have 

 this species from Temiscouata (Dr. Thomas), Belleville and Lake Superior (Mr. Macoun), 

 White Mountains (Horace Mann), and Pennsylvania (per Prof. Porter as B. nesUctum 

 A. Wood, leg. A. P. Garber). 



No. 30. Botrychium rutaefolium./4/. 5raz<«. Evidently conspecific with our 5. /K^arzW- 

 des; and Dr. Milde has very properly united both with the older B. ternatum of Thun- 

 berg and Swartz. 



No. 31. Scolopendrium officinarum 5W. New York plants are nearer to th^se specimens 

 than ours, but the species is a variable one. 



No. 34. Asplenium viride Huds. \ 



No. 37. Asplenium Ruta muraria L. S Are all identical with our North American plants. 



No. 38. Aspidium Lonchitis Sw. ' 



No. 40. Aspidium spinulosum var. dilatatum (i"wz.) I have specimens like this from 

 the Saguenay, but our usual form is a much larger and more compound plant ; dilatatum 

 is with us less variable and nearer to a type-plant than is spinulosum, and should there- 

 fore, I think, be taken as our species. 



No. 55. Polypodium vulgare {C. Brauh.) Linn. \ 



No. 56. Phegopteris polypodioides Fee. > Are our forms exactly. 



No. 57. Phegopteris Dryopteris Fee. ' 



No. 58. Phegopteris calcarea {Sm.) Fee. Not certainly known as North American, 

 but hardly more than a variety of No. 57. 



No. 59. Struthiopteris germanica Willd. ^ . -j ,• 1 -.u xt . 



..J 7 . : ,. , , . r • , f ^^^ identical with our North 



No. 61. Acroptens septentr,onahs (Lmn.)Lmi. ^ American forms. 



No. 62. Cystopteris montana (Rotk) Bernh. > 



No. 82. Woodsia hyperborea R. Brown. Clearly identical with our plant, biit the 

 specimen is ivery small (less than two inches high) and ilvensis-looVm^. Scarcely 

 distinct as a species from No. 15. 



No. 83. Woodsia glabella R. Brown. Having seen numerous European specimens of 

 this species, chiefly from Scandinavia, which were invariably named ]V. hyperborea, 

 I had formed the o-pm\o'!\<i\i-s.\.\\\e. Acrostichum hyperboreum oi Liljeblad (Stockholm 

 Transactions, 1793, p. 201), must be different from the IV. hyperborea of R. Brown 

 (Linn. Trans., vol. xi. p. 173); be that as it may, it is now manifest that European 

 botanists havi; long time had W. glabella without recognizing it. The specimen 

 here is from the Alps of the Tyrol, and is contributed by Dr. Milde, who appends 

 a note, stating that the species had been collected in that district as long ago as 1848, 

 but had been called IV. hyperborea, until in 1855, when it first came under his notice, 

 he found it to be the true IV. glabella. He says the present specimen grew on a dolo- 

 mite block, in company with Potentilla nitida, Phyteuma Sieberi, Euphrasia minima, 

 Silene quadrifida, Asplenium. viride, Cyatea fragilis, etc., etc., and adds that in 

 Tyrol, " this plant, like Asplenium Seelosii, is confined to the dolomite." 



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