106 AMERICAN FERN JOURNAL 
late in 1916 Mr. Arthur H. Howell, of the Bureau of 
Biological Survey, Department of Agriculture, had an 
opportunity to visit the locality for Dicranopteris flexuosa 
near Delchamps Station, a few miles from Mobile, re- 
corded by the writer several years ago.‘ - That the fern 
is actually well established at this place is clear from 
Mr. Howell’s observations. He writes that it was 
found “in exactly the situation described, in a round 
hole in the side of a shallow railroad cut,” and adds, 
“The big flood of last July may have enlarged the 
original fissure, but apparently it did not injure the 
plants. I found only a single clump, comprising pet- 
haps 40 or 50 stalks, closely bunched, in which were 
mixed a number of dead fronds.’’ Mr. Howell collected 
several specimens, of which a part have been added to 
the National Herbarium. ey 
EquisETUM PaLUSTRE IN OrEGoN.—This species 
seems to be well known as occurring in the State of 
Washington, but not to have been reported from the 
region southward. A specimen received at the National 
Herbarium for identification recently bears the follow- 
ing data: Jarboe Creek bottom, Wenaha National 
Forest, Oregon, altitude 4000 ft., July 30, 1916, William 
E. Lawrence 95. 
Wasuineton, D. C. 
A new Notholaena from the Southwest 
Wittiam R. Maxon 
In the second of a series of five articles published 
the American Naturalist for 1875, giving an ns 
his botanical investigations in southern Utah during t ‘ 
preceding year, Dr. C. C. Parry records, in the follow- 
‘Amer. Fern Journ. 4: 15. 
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