10 AMERICAN FERN JOURNAL 
rigida arguta and some dried up plants of Gymnopteris 
triangularis. 
September 5-7, in company with my son, I went 
into the San Gabriel Mountains. In the Arroyo Seco 
Canyon we found Adiantum capillus-veneris L. growing 
on wet shaded banks at elevations from about 1800 to 
3000 feet. In a cleft of a rocky cliff, at about 3000 feet, 
I found a pretty dry plant that I take to be Cheilanthes 
Fendleri, Hook., though it may be C. Clevelandii, D. C. 
Eaton. Dryopteris rigida arguta was plentiful on the 
shaded slopes and there was some Polystichum munitum, 
(Kaulf.) Unde. in the higher altitudes. 
I have given several spare hours to classifying and 
cataloguing the ferns in the Herbarium of the Southern 
California Academy of Sciences, a self-imposed task 
which, although not yet completed, has given me much 
pleasure. There are something near 200 sheets of 
ferns and fern allies from various parts of he world. 
Quite a large number of them are from Scotland, where 
they were collected by Dr. A. Davidson, chairman of 
the Botanical Section of the Academy. Then there are 
several from Germany, Mexico, and various parts of the 
United States collected by Dr. Chas. Mohr, at one time 
State Botanist of Alabama, and two of his nieces, who 
reside in this city. The rest have been collected by 
many different persons and the whole forms a quite 
interesting collection. 
While I have not been able to visit some of the places 
I had hoped to, and have not found some of the ferns I 
wished to, on the whole I have had a good time and look 
next year for perhaps a better. 
Los ANGELEs, Cat., 
October 1, 1914. 
