a. AMERICAN FERN JOURNAL 
here the growing plants have a wholly changed look. 
But in dried specimens it is hard to point out differences, — 
except that they are smaller and the stipes so brittle 
or jointed that it is next to impossible to keep them full — 
length, as they break off an inch or half inch from the 
frond. I have never noticed this feature in the species — 
from other places and it may be owing to environment, | 
but I predict that some botanist will yet give it specific 
rank. These three species are all that are common and ~ 
all that I found in some canyons. A ten-mile tramp to 
and from Chino Canyon gave me the very rare Cheilanthes 
_ viseida Dav., : i small tufted fern with fronds 4 to 5 inches 
vill be about equally divided between the two sheets. 
"up Chino: Canyon, where immense sulphur springs 
p, r we canyon, shine the only way to 
by clambering over boulders or jumping | r 
