STANDLEY’s FERN OF GREENE Co., Mo. = 113 
To the list of characteristic and extra-limital species 
given by Mr. Standley for Greene County, I can add 
Xyris flexuosa and Scleria Torreyana from about Goose 
Pond, Actaea alba from the James River, Phacelia dubia 
and P. hirsuta from Pearl and Willard, Heliotropium 
tenellum and Portulaca pilosa from Willard, and Braun- 
eria paradoxa from the prairie between Nichols Junction 
and Springfield. 
But it appears to me that Mr. Standley is in error in 
citing Micranthes Virginiensis and Bumelia lycioides for 
Greene County, Missouri. The first was collected by 
Blankinship between Willard and Graydon Springs, May 
7, 1905, No. 1, and named by him Sazifraga Virginiensis, 
but in a short paper on the Missouri Saxifrages in the 
Annual Report of the Missouri Botanical Garden for the 
year 1910, I was able to show that the Greene County 
species was Micranthes Texana, a species of the South- 
west which extends northeast into southwestern Mis- 
souri.! 
The Bumelia given by Mr. Standley must certainly be 
B. lanuginosa, 2 common tree in some parts of Greene 
County and all southern Missouri, and not B. lycioides, 
which is a species of swamps of southeastern Missour! 
to Louisiana, Virginia, Florida and Texas. 
In his notes under Notholaena dealbata, Mr. Standley 
says: “This is a Southwestern species which reaches 
the northeastern limit of its range in Southern Missouri,” 
a statement which could only have been based on what 
the Manuals say, and not on actual specimens and local 
lists,? for this species ranges much farther north and 
east. It is rather common on bare faces of limestone 
1 It is interesting to note that Dr. Small in the second edition of his —— 
gives only Texas Arkansas for Micranthes Texana, evidently overlook- 
ing my paper on the Missouri Saxifrages cited above. 
2In a letter dated August 12, 1916, Mr. Standley says that there is no 
his in a Herbarium from beyond Greene 
