Notes oN AMERICAN FERNS: X 67 
hitherto from Arizona, California, Oregon, and Wash- 
ington, has been collected in Nevada by Mr. E. A. Gold- 
man, of the Bureau of the Biological Survey, U. 5. 
Department of Agriculture, the specimen (No. 2441) 
being from Charleston, altitude 4000 feet, November 
18, 1914 (National Herbarium, No. 664606). Charles- 
ton is in the extreme northeastern part of Nevada, 
only 10 or 15. miles from the Idaho boundary. The 
known range is thus widely extended. 
The British Columbia range of Woodwardia spinulosa 
apparently rests on two records. The first relates to 
specimens listed by Macoun! as W. radicans var. ameri- 
cana, from Texada Island, Gulf of Georgia (east of Van- 
couver Island), collected by Anderson in August, 1897, 
the record being then a new one for Canada. The 
second has to do with specimens in cultivation at Kew 
‘from a small island off Vancouver Island,” which were 
described by Wright? as a new species, Woodwardia 
paradoxa. Neither material has been seen by the writer, 
but there can be small doubt that both represent the 
common W. spinulosa of the west coast of the United 
States. The distinctive characters of this fern in com- 
parison with the Old World W. radicans have been 
pointed out by several American writers, most recently 
by Underwood! in a forceful criticism of certain taxo- 
nomic practices abroad. 
Tue Stratus oF PELLABA RAFAELENSIS.—In a recent 
number of this Journat! Mr. George L. Moxley pro- 
posed a new species, Pellaea rafaelensis, the type and 
sole specimen known being of his own collection (No. 
214), from Scholl’s Canyon, San Rafael Hills, Los 
Angeles County, California, May 30, 1914. The plant 
was illustrated and was compared briefly with P. andro- 
1 Ottawa Naturalist, 13: 169. 1899. 
?Gardn. Chron. Ill. 41: 98. 1907. 
3 Torreya, 7: 73-76. 1907. 
45: 107, 108, pl. 8. 1915. 
