CATALOGUE. S3i 
Var. commune. 
Frond ample, delicate, 2-4 feet high, broadly oblong-ovate, twice pin- 
nate; pinne elongated (4-6-8 inches long); pinnules oblong-lanceolate, 
pointed, more or less pinnately incised and serrate, distinct or confluent on 
the secondary rachis by a very narrow and inconspicuous margin; sori 
short; indusium straight or variously curved.—Aspl. Filix-femina of most 
authors. 
stern America, common in moist, shaded woods. Mount Graham, Arizona, Rothrock. Calt- 
fornia, Brewer, Bolander, Kellogg, etc. Ruby Valley, Nevada, Watson. Southern Utah, Palmer. 
he paaona fully developed form of the species, which I am unable to separate from the com- 
mon European plant. Moore’s plate of Ath. Filix-fomina, var. ovatum (t. 32), well represents an ordinary 
average specimen. i living plants, the stalk and rachis is often of a beautiful brownish pink, but this 
color is lost when the frond is dried for preservation. 
Var. cyclosorum, Ruprecht. 
Fronds very large, often 5 feet high and 18-20 inches broad; the pin- 
nules often an inch long, oblong-lanceolate, pinnatifidly incised, or nearly 
again pinnated; sori roundish; indusium very short.—Distrib. Crypt. Vase. 
Ross. p. 41. Athyrium Filix-foemina, var. incisum, Moore, Nat. Pr. Brit 
Ferns, t. 30; var. cyclosorum, Moore, Index Fil. p. 183. 
Oregon City (Harford). Port Orford, Oregon, Gen. Kautz. Vermont, C. C. Frost. 
The largest form of the species, occurring on the west coast from Oregon to Alaska, rarer in the 
Atlantic States, and given by Moore as growing in Great Britain, France and Lapland. Var. Sitchense 
of Ruprecht, 1. c., is probably the same thing. The crested, multifid, and irregularly developed forms 
of the Lady Feri are comparatively rare in America, or it is not to be doubted that diligent search 
sine bring them tothe light. One of them, var. laciniatum, Moore, is mentioned by Mr. Davenport as 
ing in New Jersey. (See Bulletin of Torrey Club, ip vi, p. 168.) Of the varieties above described, 
var. iunpvteen | is the most distinct, but all are closely connected by various intermediate conditions. 
Tre IV. ASPIDIEZ. 
XII. PHEGOPTERIS. Fée. 
Phegopteris alpestris, Mettenius. 
Rootstock short and thick, erect or oblique; stalks 4—10 inches long, 
bearing a few large brown spreading scales near the base; fronds oblong- 
lanceolate, 1-2 feet long, pinnate with delicately bipinnatifid deltoid-lanceo- 
late pinne, the lower pinnz distant and decreasing moderately ; pinnules 
ovate-oblong or oblong-lanceolate, incised and toothed; sori small, rounded, 
sub-marginal.—Fil. Hort. Lips. p. 83; iiber Phegopteris, p. 10. Aspidium 
alpestre, Swartz. Polypodium alpestre, Hoppe. Hooker, British Ferns, t. 6. 
