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shield fern still had green patches and one frond, pro- 
tected by the leaf-covering, was green and living. 
Among the curiosities developed in the fern garden 
were a forked frond of the silvery spleenwort, a forked 
and crested frond of the marginal shield fern, and several 
forked fronds of the New York fern. 
Kutztown, Pa. 
Notes and News 
In the course of a collecting trip made through Curry 
County, Oregon, in June, 1917, in company with Pro- 
fessor M. E. Peck of Willamette University, we were 
fortunate enough to find a very beautiful Adiantum 
which was determined by Mr. J. Francis Macbride 
of the Gray Herbarium as A. Jordani Mueller. The 
specimen was growing in very dry rocky soil on the 
north side of the canyon of Rogue River, a few miles 
below the mouth of Mule Creek, near the deserted 
mining camp of Solitude Bar. As this species is not 
mentioned in Professor Sweetser’s ‘‘Popular Deserip- 
tion of the Common Oregon Ferns” (1913), and n° 
specimen of it is included in the herbarium of the Un 
versity of Oregon, I was inclined to think at first that 
this was its first occurrence in the State. The range 
given in Eaton’s Ferns of North America (I, 286), where 
it is described as A. emarginatum Hook., is “From 
San Diego, California, to Oregon”; but no specimen 
to confirm its occurrence in this State is cited. There 
is, however, in the herbarium of the University of Cale 
fornia a specimen collected by Thomas Howell |™ 
the Umpqua Valley, June 20, 1887.” Since eae 
we 
cannot be the authority on which Eaton based his 
reference of the species to Oregon. I can find no col- 
lector who has seen it here recently. My own specimen 
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