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reference to this South American species, and citing 
Baker’s opinion to the contrary, he nevertheless drew 
a description of N. tenera to cover both forms. The 
Parry and Palmer plants have not been seen by the 
writer. Agreeing with the figures and descriptive notes, 
however, are several other specimens now at hand from 
southern Utah and southern California, and these indi- 
cate an undescribed species wholly distinct from N. 
tenera. It may be known as below, the name being 
given in honor of Mr. Marcus E. Jones, author of “Ferns 
of the West” and for many years a keen and interested 
collector of this group. 
Notholaena Jonesii Maxon, sp. nov.—Plants tufted, 
the rhizome short, oblique, conspicuously chaffy, the 
scales linear, very long-attenuate, thin, bright brown; 
fronds 3-10 em. long, spreading, the stipes curved, 
closely fasciculate, reddish brown, sublustrous; blades 
mostly twice as long as the stipes, oblong-ovate 10 
narrowly triangular, bipinnate; pinnae few, opposite t0 
alternate, with one or two pairs of distant, entire 1 
crenately lobed, roundish or subcordate pinnules and & 
similar, but larger, terminal segment; pinnules mostly 
short-stalked, the stalks flat and greenish brown; leaf- 
tissue apparently fleshy, herbaceous, glabrous, some 
What glaucous, not at all pulverulent; sporangia bon 
toward the end of the once or twice forked veins im 4 
broad submarginal band, dark, nearly globose. 
Type in the U. S. National Herbarium, No. 350447, 
collected in Panamint Canyon, Inyo County, Californ'® 
altitude 1200 meters, May 4, 1897, by Marcus E. Jones 
Additional specimens are: Fifteen miles west of ®t 
George, Utah, Jones 5004d; crevices of dry limeston? 
cliffs, mountains back of Cushenberry Spring, San Be 
ardino County, California, May, 1882, S. B. & W-** 
Parish 1242; and a second Parish specimen, also ook, 
lected in May, 1882, marked ‘“Cushenberry, - 
