Notes anp NEws 9] 
pinnae with irregular teeth, largest toward the base, 
and with three prominent veins, as described by him, 
but differ in having about half the pinnae auricled on 
the upper side, as in the typical form, and possess one 
peculiar character which he does not mention. The 
lateral veins bear a number of broad-based bristles, 1-2 
mm. long, which, in the living plant, stand up at rignt 
angles to the plane of ihe pinnae and are similar in 
Size and structure to those which occur at the points of 
the teeth in normal fronds. The marginal teeth are 
mostly, but not always, without bristles. The accom- 
POLYSTICHUM ACROSTICHOIDES, F. LANCEOLATUM 
Panying sketch, which is about life-size, shows these 
Characters 
Dr. E. H. Eames writes me that his specimens of the 
original collection of forma lanceolatum show the same 
peculiarities: Prof. Clute’s description should, there- 
ore, be amended and expanded to include them. 
_ There was only a single plant at my station. I 
intended to revisit it and observe it further, but, owing 
to absence from home during several consecutive sum- 
mers, it was some years before I got there again. Then 
I found that the woods in the edge of which the plant 
had grown had been cut down and the plant itself had 
disappeared, 
CAL W. 
