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arum, Bentham & Hooker reduced Edosmia to Cariim without 

 re-namicg the species, and in Proc. Amer. Acad, vii, 344 

 ( March, 1868), Gray, accepting their amalgamation, took up 

 the old specific name: this latter (which appears to be the 

 first reference to the new binomial), has been omitted by 

 Watson. 



In the Bibliographical Index, p. 416, Dr. Watson has 

 treated as a synonym of Carum Gairdneri, the Osmorhiza ( ?) 

 edulis of Eafinesque's Medical Botany, ii, 249 (1830), which 

 is a nomen nudum needlessly added to the synonymy: had 

 .Eafinesc[ue sufficiently diagnosed his plant at the place cited, 

 the specific name edulis would have to be adopted. As it is, 

 the true name and citation are Carum Gairdneri (H. & A.), 

 Gray, Proc. Amer. Acad, vii, 344 (March, 1868), with the fol- 

 lowing synonyms: 



Atenla Gairdneri, Hook. & Am. Bot. Beech, 349 (1840). 

 Edosmia Gairdneri, Terr. & Gray Flor. i, 612 (June, 1840). 

 Peucedanwn triternatum, Torr. Sc Gray, Pacific Eailroad Eeports, ii, 



Botany, p. 121 (1855); not of Nutt. in T. & G. Flora i, 626 (1840) 



rflde Watson Bibl. Index]. 



SHOET ARTICLES. 



A Fern new to California.— Dryoj^ffin's spinulosa, (L.) 

 Ktze., var. dilaiaia (Hoffm.) Unde., occurs, as is well known, 

 on the higher mountains from North Carolina northward 

 through New England to Canada and thence westward to 

 Alaska, British Columbia and Oregon. But, so far as is 

 known to the writer, it has not hitherto been reported from 

 California. The credit of its discovery in this State belongs 

 to Mr. J. Burtt Davy, who found it last January in the 

 woods of the Coast Eange mountains near Olema, in Marin 



county. 



The fronds of the Californian plant are larger and more 

 coarsely toothed than those of our herbarium specimens 



