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was collected about fifty miles north of the California 
line; Howell’s specimen still further to the northward. 
I should be glad to know if any other collector has 
found this beautiful Californian fern within the limits 
of Oregon, or if any specimen anterior to Howell’s is 
in existence to confirm Eaton’s reference of it to this 
State. 1 
J. C. NELSON 
In the most recent manual covering that part of 
Oregon west of the Cascades (Piper and Beattie’s Flora 
of the Northwest Coast) the range of Ceropteris tri- 
angularis (Kaulf.) Underw. is stated as being “mostly 
near the sea-coast.”” My own observation leads me 
to the conclusion that this is slightly misleading, as 
tending to give the impression that it is not common 
elsewhere, During the last three seasons I have col- 
lected it throughout the whole length of the Willamette 
Valley from Eugene northward, more than sixty miles 
from the coast in an air-line, and separated from it 
by the main chain of the Coast Range. Not only 
does it occur on the east slopes of this range, but it 
has crossed the wide alluvial prairies of the Willamette 
alley and is frequent in the foot-hills of the Cascades. 
t is abundant on Spencer’s Butte, an isolated rocky 
hill 8€ven miles south of Eugene, where may be found 
nearly every species of fern native to Oregon; there 
s @ considerable colony of it on a rocky oak-covered 
Side at Turner in Marion County, on the east side 
of the Willamette Valley; it is not infrequent in rocky 
Sods and pastures about Salem, also on the east side 
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‘Mr. A. F. Hill, ity, h kindly look 
cnr , Of Yale University, has very : 
entter for us. He finds in the D. C. Eaton herbarium a sheet of A. Jordant 
Sonenses. ‘This is prot hich Eaton based 
: probably the specimen on Ww! aes 
ment. The label gives no more definite locality than Oregon. ED. 
