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south. The prediction is borne out by a single specimen, 
hitherto undetermined, in the National Herbarium. 
This was collected on the sandy bank of the Minam 
River, Oregon, at a point near its mouth, altitude 850 
meters, August 13, 1897, by E. P. Sheldon (no. 8689, in 
part). It belongs to that form of the species described 
by A. A. Eaton as var. alaskanum. 
LycopopiuM oBscurum L. This species was recently 
reported by Piper and Beattie* from a single locality 
in Washington, 23 miles northeast of the small town of 
Snoqualmie, upon material collected by L. A. Nelson 
in 1909. The record is substantiated by a specimen in 
the National Herbarium. Mr. Nelson’s notes indicate 
that only the single small station in central Washington 
js known, this having been discovered by him in 1907. 
The plants are said to grow under small fir, cedar, and 
hemlocks, at about 2,800 feet altitude. 
SELAGINELLA RippELLu Van Eseltine. Following 
the original description of this species the range is 
given as “Central and eastern Texas, probably through 
southern Louisiana.’”’ Numerous specimens are cited 
from Texas, but none from Louisiana. There is, how- 
ever, a reference to Riddell’s manuscript description in 
the Gray Herbarium. Riddell’s descriptive notes, 
which have recently been examined by the writer, give 
definite distributional data which it seems worth while 
to put on record. They conclude with the following 
statement: “On dry sandy hills near Kisatchy Springs, 
Western La., Hale. Also on dry granular quartz rocks, 
at Kaolin Creek, near the San Saba, Texas, where I 
first found it in November, 1839. The foregoing de- 
scription is drawn from the Texas specimens, as my 
sample from Dr. Hale, though doubtless the same, is not 
* Fil. Northw. Coast 14. 1915. 
