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respectively. The fertile segments are typical in form 
ut had scattered their spores. Many small sterile 
fronds were growing in that vicinity so I am expecting 
much better results from another trip which I propose 
to take to that locality in June, 1918. 
This station is located at an altitude of about 800 
ft. on a dry sterile hillside four or five miles northwest 
of the village of St. Johnsbury but within the town 
limits. 
Inez Appr Howe. 
Forkinc Fronps iy ADIANTUM CAPILLUS-VENERIS.— 
On September 3 last, with two other botanically in- 
clined companions and one conchologically obsessed, I 
took a trip to Eaton Canyon, which cuts its way into 
the San Gabriel Mountains between Mt. Lowe and 
Mt. Wilson, for the purpose of spending a pleasant 
holiday in congenial surroundings and gathering such 
Specimens of natural history as might please our fancy. 
While exploring the upper reaches of the canyon, one 
of my friends called my attention to a forking frond 
of Adiantum Capillus-veneris L. and asked if it was 
common. Now I had not before particularly noted 
any such forms so we began looking for them to see 
if they were at all common. During the next hour 
or two we found perhaps a dozen fronds from simply 
forking dichotomously once to a quite compound form 
in which the two forks split up much after the manner 
of the veins of the pinules, making quite a crested end 
for the frond. I do not remember having seen any 
hotice of such forms in this species so pass the observa- 
tion along for the benefit of those who like to look 
for Variations from the normal. 
Gro. L. MOXLEY. 
