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several irregular rows between the midrib and margins.—Linnza, xx, 
p- 363. Hooker & Baker, Syn. Fil. p. 257. 
A few specimens of a small form with free veins, answering to Aspidium pumilum (Martens & 
Galeotti, Fil. Mex. p. 64, t. 17, f. 1), were collected at the Hueco Tanks in Western Texas, and at Van 
Horn’s Well, by the Botanists attached to the Mexican Boundary Commission in 1852, but the plant has 
not been collected within the United States since that time. 
is a common species in Mexico and Tropical America, and includes many nominal species as 
well as two genera, Amblya of Presl and Phanerophebia of Pres] and Fée. 
XIV. CYSTOPTERIS. Bernhardi. 
Cystopteris fragilis, Bernh. 
Common in rocky places from the Arctic regions to Chile in the west, and to South Africa and 
Tasmania in the east, everywhere variable in size, and in the breadth of the segments and the degree of 
their incision. 
CYSTOPTERIS MONTANA, Bernh., with deltoid-ovate, delicately tripinnate, and almost quadri- 
pinnate fronds, and a long, slender, creeping rootstock, was collected many years ago in the Rocky 
Mountains of British America by Drummond, and more sodas on the north shore of Lake Superior by 
Macoun, and in Labrador by Rev. R. 8S. Butler. It may possibly occur in California or Colorado, 
XV. WOODSIA. R. Brown. 
Woodsia scopulina, D. C. Eaton. 
Rootstocks short, creeping, entangled, very chaffy; stalks 2-4 inches 
high, from bright ferruginous near the base becoming paler upwards, puber- 
ulent like the rachis and under surface of the frond with minute flattened 
hairs and stalked glands ; fronds lanceolate, 4—8 inches long, pinnate; pinne 
numerous, 8—10 lines long, oblong-ovate, pinnatifid with 10-16 short ovate 
or oblong crenulate or toothed divisions; sori submarginal; indusium very 
delicate, deeply cleft into lacinize, which terminate in short hairs composed 
of irregular cylindrical cells—Canadian Naturalist, Apr. 1865, p. 90. Bot. 
of ake Parallel, p. 397. 
aga erage x Hall, Wood), and in Mono Pass, California, at 9,000 to 10,000 feet elevation 
( PC aay a Dakota and Minnesota in the north, and southwards to Arizona (Palmer) and Colorado, 
growing in dense masses on rocks and in their crevices. It has been collected also in British Columbia. 
Woodsia Oregana, D. C. Eaton. 
Much like the last in size and habit, but the stalks and fronds smooth; 
fertile fronds taller than the sterile ones; pinne triangular-oblong, obtuse, 
pinnatifid; segments ‘oblong or ovate, obtuse, toothed or crenate; the 
teeth often reflexed and covering the submarginal sori; indusium very 
minute, divided almost to the centre into a few beaded hairs—Can. Nat. 
l.c. Gray’s Manual, ed. 5, p. 669. 
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