- 
Notes anp NEws 121 
necessary to remove numbers of them each year. Sev- 
eral of these I transplanted to a favorable habitat about 
two miles away and now have some fine ferns growing 
there. The old clumps follow the habit of the obtuse 
woodsia by dying outwards from the middle and produc- 
ing some fronds a year or two longer on the outer cicle. 
The fronds of the young plants usually begin to appear 
soon after the middle of April and those of the old plants 
about the close of April. One year, however, the first 
fronds were out on April 7. A large percentage of the 
fronds are fertile. The black or black-brown sporangia 
ripen during the last week in June and mature fruit 
may sometimes be found on succeeding fronds as late 
as September. The bulblets begin forming as early as 
the middle of May and some are falling by the middle 
of July. During July and August I have found bulb- 
lets, still clinging to the fronds, which had sprouted to 
a length of one-half to three-fourths of an inch. 
Kurzrown, Pa. 
(To be concluded) 
Notes and News 
Lycopoprum Seago var. Mryosa1anum nv Norta 
AMERICA.—Since Lycopodium Selago var. Miyoshianum 
does not seem to have been recorded from North Amer- 
lea, it will not be out of place to state its synonymy 
and its diagnostic characters. 
Lycopoptum SELaco L., var. Mryosa1anum Makino, 
Bot. Mag. Tokyo xvi. 199 (1902); L. chinense Christ, 
Nuovo Giornale Bot. Italiano iv. 101 (1897); L. Miyo- 
shianum Makino, Bot. Mag. Tokyo xii. 36 (1898). 
aves densely crowded, ‘‘ascending or spreading m 
the upper and mostly reflexed in the lower portion of 
the stem, narrowly linear, 46.5 mm. long, 0.5-0.6 mm 
wide, a little curved upwards, entire, gradually acumin- 
ate with a fine point, sessile, . . . the upper surface 
