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in fruit.”’ There are two different collections of this 
species by Hale in the Gray Herbarium; one is marked 
merely “‘ Louisiana, Hale’’; the other is labelled ‘‘Sandy 
hills, Red River, Louisiana, J. Hale.” Both are fertile, 
the latter conspicuously so. 
SELAGINELLA NEOMEXICANA Maxon. This species 
when described! was known to the writer only upon 
specimens collected several times in the Organ Moun- 
tains, New Mexico, by E. O. Wooton. The range is 
considerably extended by a specimen in the Gray Her- 
barium, collected at Paradise, Cochise County, Arizona, 
March, 1904, by James H. Ferriss. This, like the New 
Mexican specimens, appears to bear no mature mega- 
spores. 
SELAGINELLA OREGANA D. C. Eaton. Underwood, in 
his initial work on the group of Selaginella rupestris in 
1898, took up for the Pacific coast plant generally known 
as S. oregana D. C. Eaton the name S. struthioloides, 
remarking upon previous failures to associate the de- 
scription of Lycopodium struthioloides Presl (from 
Nootka Sound) with Selaginella oregana. A recent 
study of Presl’s description, however, indicates rather 
clearly that Presl was here describing a true Lycopodium 
and that those writers who have referred the name to 
forms included in the tropical American complex of 
Lycopodium taxifolium Swartz are probably correct, the 
locality ‘“‘ Nootka Sund” being erroneous and presumably 
due to crossed labels. 
It may be admitted that the name “ struthioloides”’ is 
peculiarly appropriate to our west coast Selaginella, in 
which the numerous slender branches are recurved, like 
ostrich plumes, in loosely intricate clusters. On the 
other hand, Presl, however radical his ideas as to multi- 
plying genera, habitually described his plants with 
‘Smiths. Misc. Coll. 725; 2. pl. 1. 1920. 
