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very likely prove quite distinct. With C. amoenus it need 
not be compared, for that has a floral structure of another 
kind altogether, so that with C. albus no botanist can con- 
found it, even as a variety. 
Fritillaria glauca. About 6 or 8 inches high; leaves 2 
to 4 alternate, oblong-lanceolate, and, with the stem, very 
glaucous: flowers 1 or 2, of a very broad open-campanulate 
figure, greenish or purplish, the segments about 1 inch long: 
anthers oblong, yellow, about equalling the pistil. 
Near Waldo, Oregon, 26 April, 1892, Thomas Howell. 
NEW STATION FOR NOTHOLZANA TENERA. 
By S. B. Parisu. 
Although nearly twenty years have passed since this fern 
was first found in North America, it still remains one of our 
rarest species. Its discoverer was Dr. C. C. Parry, who, 
while botanically exploring the little known region of 
Southern Utah in 1874, found it growing on the face of lime- 
stone cliffs in a deep cafion of the Beaver Dam Mountains. 
Dr. Parry published an account of his explorations in the 
American Naturalist for 1875, in a series of five papers, and 
in the concluding one this fern has its first record.1 As it is 
one of the few plants without a number, it was probably not 
collected in sufficient quantity for general distribution. 
Hight years later, in the Spring of 1882, the writer collected 
it in two cafions near Cushenberry Springs, leading up from 
the Mojave Desert into the San Bernardino Mountains. In 
both instances it was growing in the seams of dry perpen- 
dicular rocks. In one, the Oushenberry caiion itself, but a 
single plant was observed, the gathering of which it is to be 
feared was an act of extermination, no more being found on 
several subsequent visits. In a nameless cafon a few miles 
west, the plants filled a crevice less than a foot long, and as 
‘Am. Natural. ix, 351. 
