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numerous, comparatively broad, and pale to bright 
brown in color. In the broad, they are fewer, some- 
times almost entirely absent, narrower than in the 
other species and usually white or nearly so. The 
color test may fail, though rarely, but the shape of 
the scales, once you have learned to recognize it, 1S 
a practically certain index to the species. 
In the accompanying sketch, fig. 1 represents a scale 
of the broad beech fern magnified eight times (about the 
power of the ordinary lens), fig. 2 one of the long beech 
on the same scale. The marginal hairs shown in fig. 
1 are not a good distinctive character; ciliate scales may 
oceur in both species——C. A. W. 
RECORDS OF MONOMORFHIC EquisETUM TELMATEIA— 
In his note in the last number of the Journat, Mr. 
J. C. Nelson asks if the monomorphic tendency in this 
species has been observed by other collecters either in 
this country or Europe. I have no personal experience 
to relate, but can perhaps give some informatiom as 
to records in books not readily accessible to all readers 
of the JouRNAL. 
I find no recorded collections from North America 
other than the ‘“‘two specimens from British Columbia” 
mentioned by A. A. Eaton in his account of the North 
American species of Equisetum in the Fern Bulletin . 
and the records from New Westminster, B. C., given 
by Prof. Henry in his recently published Flora of 
