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Baker, Syn. Fil., 48. Macoun & Burgess, Trans. Koy. Soc. Can., 

 ii., sect, iv., 220. Burgess, Trans. Eoy. Soc. Can., iv., sect, iv., 180. 



Aspidium obtusum, Willd., Sp. PI., v., 254. Pursh, Fl. Am. Sept., ii., 662. 

 Physematium obiusum, Hook., Fl. Bor.-Am., ii., 259. 



This fern, which is found on rocks and stony hillsides, is one of our 

 rarest species, only three stations being recorded for it, and these 

 strangely far apart. In the gorge through which Dr. Hamilton's 

 Road winds up to the summit of North Mountain, near Canning, N.S. 

 (Jack.} Amongst loose rocks at Port Simpson, Northern B.C. (Ander- 

 son.) West side of the Rock3 r Mountains, near the sources of the 

 Columbia. (Drummond.) 



(3026.) W. scopulina, D. C. Eaton, Can. Nat., ii., 91. Hook. & 

 Baker, Syn. Fil., ed. 2, 48. Macoun & Burgess, Trans. Roy. Soc. 

 Can., ii., sect, iv., 220. Burgess, Trans. Roy. Soc. Can., iv., sect. 

 iv., 18. 



Found growing in dense masses on rocks and in their crevices, 

 chiefly in shade, and confined with us, so far as known, to the Rocky 

 Mountains, and British Columbia. Rocky Mountains ; and Elk River, 

 Kootanie Yalley, B.C. (Dawson.) Among loose rocks on mountain 

 sides at Lytton and Victoria, B.C. (Fletcher.) Along the Fraser and 

 Thompson rivers, B.C., from Yale to Sicamous on Shuswap Lake, and . 

 on the mountains at these places ; abundant in Kicking Horse Pass, 

 Rocky Mountains. (Macoun.) Specimens thickly glandular on the 

 upper as well as the lower surface have been collected by Mr. Ander- 

 son on Mount Finlayson, near Victoria, B.C. 



(3027.) W. Oregana, D. C. Eaton, Can. Nat., ii., 90. Hook. & 

 Baker, Syn. Fil., ed. 2, 48. Watt, Can. Nat., iv., 363. Macoun & 

 Burgess, Trans. Roy. Soc. Can., ii., sect, iv., 221. Burgess, Trans. 

 Roy. Soc. Can., iv., sect, iv., 18. 



A delicate little species occurring in dense patches in the crevices of 

 rocks, often where exposed to the sun, and ranging from Lake Nepigon 

 westward into British Columbia and northward to Lake Athabaska. 

 Blackwater River, Lake Nepigon, Ont. ; Fort Chipey wan, Athabasca ; 

 and Peace River Pass, Rocky Mountains ; along the Fraser and 

 Thompson river.s, B.C., from Yale to Spence's Bridge; on Blackwater 

 River, along the Telegraph Trail, and at Fort St. James, Northern 

 B.C. (Macoun.) Exposed rocks,tKamloops, B.C. (Fletcher.) 



