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boulders in Jackson County, and I have seen specimens 
of it from Holt and Platte Counties, nearly 100 miles 
farther north, Greene has collected it in northwestern 
Missouri, Tracy in his Flora in 1886, gives it for Boone 
County, Daniels in his Flora in 1907, gives it for Colum- 
bia, it has even been reported from western Illinois near 
St. Louis, and I have a letter from Dr. Engelmann in 
which he says it is occasionally found about St. Louis. 
On a collecting trip with Prof. Shepard in 1885, I saw 
Adiantum Capillus-Veneris along the James River just 
east of Gates, and farther down the river in Christian 
County, and Shepard reports it from Greene, Christian 
and Stone Counties in Tracy’s Flora in 1886. 
In his note on the range of Asplenium Bradleyi, Mr. 
Standley says ‘On rocks e. N. Y. to Ky., “‘Mo.,” and 
southw.’? There is no longer reason to question its 
occurrence in Missouri, for the specimen from Greene 
County is undoubtedly this species.’”’ There has been 
no doubt about the occurrence of this species in Missouri 
with collectors for 25 years or more, it having been 
collected at Osceola by Van Ingen and Shepard in 1890, 
by Mackenzie at Bay Mills in 1897, by Russell at Mine 
La Motte in 1897, at Rolla by Greene in 1915, and at 
Montevallo by Bush and Greene in 1915. 
Mr. Standley very properly eliminates Aspleniwm pin- 
natifidum from the Greene County flora, as the Greene 
County citation of Shepard’s in Tracy’s Flora, was 
mistake of Tracy’s, Shepard reporting this to me for 
Missouri, not Greene County, his knowledge of it based 
on some collection as yet unknown to me. Davenport 
in his catalogue in 1879 credits this species to Missouri, 
having specimens in his herbarium collected by some 
early collector, perhaps by Shepard. Davenport ap- 
pears to have been followed by Gray, Britton and Brown, 
Gilbert and Maxon in citing this species for Missouri. — 
ey me cs ee ae te ay 
: Ss 
1. seventh edition. 1908. _ 
