PELLAEA RAFAELENSIS, Sp. Nov. 107 
Woodsia obtusa is common on shaded cliffs of both 
sandstone and dolomite. 
Equisetum hyemale, possibly a variety, occurs on the 
Frisco Railroad near Arlington, a few miles west of 
Rolla. (E. laevigatum of Bush). 
The writer will be glad to furnish specimens of Ophio- 
glossum Engelmanni and Pellaea glabella upon receipt 
of postage. 
Roiua, Missourt. 
Pellaea Rafaelensis, Sp. Nov. 
GEORGE L. MOXLEY 
Some seven or eight years ago, when I had just begun 
to study the ferns, I found in Eagle Rock Canyon, near 
Los Angeles, Cal., a fern so different from the ordinary 
“Coffee fern” as to attract my interested attention. I 
referred it tentatively to P. fleruosa (Kaulf.) Link, 
which I found credited to California.. In moving, some- 
time or other, I lost the specimen and had no oppor- 
tunity to study it further. I have since seen Mr. 8. B. 
Parish’s statement in the Fern Bulletin, xii: 9, 1904, 
that the reference of P. fleruosa to California is “almost 
certainly erroneous.” 
Last year in another canyon in the same range of hills 
I found another plant that very much resembles the one 
I found before, as I now remember it. I have also 
recently seen what purported to be a specimen of P. 
flexuosa and my plant is most certainly not that species. 
Neither does it agree with our common P. andromedae- 
folia (Kaulf.) Fée. I wish to publish it as 
laea Rafaelensis, sp.nov. Rootstock slender, 
short-creeping, covered with narrow brown scales; stipes 
tufted, pale, glabrous, 30-40 em. long; fronds 20-30 em. 
long, 9-12 cm. broad, lanceolate, mostly bipinnate; 
