SHORTER NOTES 119 
LycopopiIumM COMPLANATUM VAR. FLABELLIFORME 
WITH SEVEN Sprkes.—In recently working over some 
undistributed material in the Pennsylvania herbarium 
at the Carnegie Museum I found a specimen of Lyco- 
podium complanatum var. flabelliforme Fernald, appar- 
ently typical of that variety excepting that the fruiting 
stem carried two peduncles, each subtending seven well 
developed spikes averaging about two centimeters 
long. The distances between successive forks, as well 
as the immediate pedicels of the spikes, range from 
about 4 to 8 mm., but at the second forking of the ped- 
uncle one of the branches remains undivided and con- 
stitutes thus a pedicel for its spike about 11 mm. long. 
The specimen was collected by O. P. Medsgar, Dec. 27, 
1899, along Jacobs Creek, which flows in a rather wild 
valley in an almost mountainous region of southwestern 
Pennsylvania.—O. E. JenninGs. Pittsburgh, Pa. 
A New Station ror CyrtomMiuM FAaLcATUM AND 
Preris Loncrrouia in ALABAMA.—Mr. W. C. Dukes 
reported in the Fern Bulletin for July, Vol. XV, No. 
3, of having located a station for Cyrtomium falcatum 
oo falcatum) near Prattville, in Autauga County, 
Alabam 
ee year I noticed a fern growing ; slong the street 
near the Ashland Place, on the north side of Spring Hill 
road, just west of the city limits of Mobile. This year 
I examined it more closely and found it to be a good 
sized plant of Cyrtomium falcatum. As it was growing 
in the corner of a yard of a dwelling house, I called at 
the house and asked the occupants if they had set the 
fern there. On their replying in the negative, I asked 
how long it had been growing there, I was told it was 
there four years previous when they moved into the 
house. 
