CATALOGUE. 307 
Notholxna Newberryi, D. ©. Eaton. 
Rootstock covered with very narrow dark bristly scales; stalks tufted, 
3—5 inches long, slender, blackish-brown, when young woolly with a pale- 
ferruginous tomentum; fronds as long as the stalks, lanceolate-oblong, 
covered, most densely beneath, with a web of very fine entangled whitish 
hairs, tri—quadripinnate ; ultimate segments roundish-obovate, very closely 
placed, 4-4 a line broad, entire or slightly crenate; sporangia rather large, 
blackish, at length apparent in the mass of tomentum.—Bulletin of Torrey 
Club, iv, p. 12. 
Near San Diego, California (Dr. Newberry, Prof. Wood, Mr. Cleveland). Temescal Range, Prof. 
Brewer. Guadalupe Island, Dr. Palmer. It comes very near to N. Parryi, but is more compound, has 
smaller ultimate divisions, and a decidedly finer and more matted covering. 
*** Frond beneath pulveraceous, or coated with a fine powder, either white, 
yellowish, or yellow. 
+ Fronds once pinnate, the pinne with sessile segments. 
Notholzna candida, Hooker. 
Rootstock creeping; the scales narrow, rigid, and nearly black; stalks 
tufted, 3-6 inches long, wiry, black and shining; frond rather shorter 
than the stalk, deltoid-ovate in outline, pinnate; the lowest pair of pinne 
having the lowest inferior pinnules elongated and again pinnatifid, three 
or four next pairs of pinnz somewhat distant and clearly separated, lanceo- 
late, pinnatifid into slightly curved oblong segments; upper pinne like the 
segments of the middle ones; segments green above, white-pulveraceous 
beneath, except on the nearly or quite black midribs, the margin slightly 
revolute, but not covering the line of dark-brown sporangia —Sp. Fil. ii, p. 
116, and v, p. 111. WN. sulphurea, J. Smith, Botany of Voyage of the 
Herald, p. 233; Baker, Syn. Fil. p. 373.—N. pulveracea, Kunze; D. C. 
Eaton in Bot. of Mex. Boundary. 
estern Texas and New Mexico, C. Wright, 820 and 2124, Bigelow, Schott. Colorado Desert, Arizona, 
Parry. Recently discovered in San Diego Co., California, by Mr. D. Cleveland and Miss 4. E. Burbeck. 
It extends pennant Mexico and as far as Pern and Chile.—This Fern has many names besides those 
quoted above. It seems to have been first named Pteris sulphurea by Cavanilles, from a form with 
yellow powder, not rare in cea America, but as its cldest name in the genus Notholena is Hooker’s, 
I do not see the propriety of going back with Messrs. Smith and Baker to the name sulphurea. 
