Ampvriran Fern Journal 
Vol. 5 JANUARY—MARCH, 1915 No. 1 
Notes on American Ferns: IX.'! 
WILLIAM R. MAXON 
A New Name ror Notuorarna Hooker D. C. 
Eaton.—One of the most interesting and attractive 
xerophilous ferns of the southwestern United States is 
that first described as Notholaena candida var. 5-fido- 
palmata Hook.,? but known since 1879 as Notholaena 
Hookert D. C. Eaton.? The latter name, having, how- 
ever, been given to another fern? more than twenty 
years previously by Lowe, with an adequate description 
and a very excellent figure,® its use by Eaton for the 
United States plant can not be regarded as admissible. 
As a substitute for Eaton’s name the writer proposes 
the name Notholaena Standleyi in honor of Mr. Paul 
C. Standley, Assistant Curator of the United States 
National Herbarium, who has devoted much time to 
field study in the Southwest and recently has collabor- 
ated with Prof. E. O. Wooton in the preparation of a 
comprehensive Flora of New Mexico, which will appear 
shortly. Eaton’s type is from western Texas, but the 
species is commonest in Arizona and New Mexico, 
ranging southward well into Mexico. The reference of 
this species to California, by Hooker, in which Christen 
1 Published _ permission of the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institu- 
tion. (Nos. 1-8 of this series, 1900-1911, appeared in the Fern Bulletin. 
2 Hook. Sp. Fil. 5: 111. 1864 
?In Wheeler, Rep. U. 's. Surv. 100th N . 6: 308. pl. 30. 1879. 
4It is hota mand a form of Pellaea nivea, or . Notholaena nivea. 
5 Ferns 1: 59. pil. 13. 1856. 
[No. 3 of the fibteger (4: 77-108) was issued Oct. 10, 1914: No. 4 
(4: 109-132) Dec. 28, 1914] 
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