22 AMERICAN FERN JOURNAL 
OPHIOGLOSSACEAE 
OPHIOGLOSsUM vuLGATUM L. Marshall, Harrison 
County, 13215. 
This species appears to be quite rare in Texas and 
is probably limited to the moist, heavily forested eastern 
section. The specimens collected were growing in 
rich, alluvial soil of low woods along a small creek. 
This was compared with a large series preserved in the 
herbarium of the Missouri Botanical Garden, and, 
curiously, it, with an identical form collected by the 
writer at Natchitoches, Louisiana, 7482, and one col- 
lected by John H. Kellogg at Fulton, Arkansas, ap- 
proximate in form and general appearance specimens 
from central and northern Europe much more closely 
than they do most of the American material referred . 
to this species. 
OPHIOGLOSSUM ENGELMANNII Prantl. San Augustine, 
San Augustine County, 7102; Brownwood, Brown 
County, 11432; Houston, Harris County, 11447; Austin, 
Travis County, 13667. 
This species, although it has often been confused 
with the last in collections, is readily distinguishable 
by its fleshy, dull green sterile fronds, with apiculate 
apex, and its usually shorter, stockier habit of growth. 
It is generally found in large colonies, in thin soil, on 
limestone ledges or barrens. The specimens from 
Palestine were growing on knolls in low woods, and 
those from College Station and Houston in stiff, black 
soil, in woods near streams. The species is apparently 
common and widely distributed in Texas. 
WesB City, Mo. 
(To be continued) 
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