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the scape very short, and the head twisted and otherwise deformed. 



I found, also, a normal plant of Plantago major L. at Plaisance, 

 at an elevation of about 2,200 feet, 



A close watch of the country adjacent to the sea-coast failed 

 to bring to light any of these species, and it would seem that it 

 is only in the comparatively cool air of the mountains that they 

 were able to survive. 



Nkw York Botanical Garden. 



SHORTER NOTES 



ToMOPHAGUS FOR Dendkophagus. — My attention has been 

 kindly called by Mr. C. V. Piper to the fact that the generic 

 name DeiidropJiagiis, recently used for a new genus of the Poly- 

 poraceae (Bull. Torrey Club, 32 : 473. 1905), was assigned by 

 Tourney in 1900 to a slimc-mould causing the disease known as 

 " crown-gall " (Bull. Univ. Ariz. Agric. Exper. Sta. 33 : 7-64. 

 /. /-?/. 1900). I therefore substitute the name Tomophagus 

 for the one preempted, with Tomophagus colossus (Er. ) as the 

 type. William A. Murkill. 



Nkw York Botamcai, Garden. 



The Gray Polypody in Ohio. — In the October number of 

 ToRREYA, in the article " Notes on the Gray Polypody," the 

 author, Ivar Tidestrom, states (p. 175) that " This is possibly iJic 

 most northern locality for this fern" — referring to the station 

 noted by C. L. Pollard, at which place, " near the Potomac 

 Ri\'er and within fifteen miles of Washington," the plant was 

 found by W. P. Hay. 



I have a station for the plant which I take to be a little farther 

 north than that mentioned above. At any rate it may be of 

 sufficient interest to report that this fern was collected in 1900 in 

 the northern part of Adams County (Ohio) at a place called 

 Beaver Pond. I also found plants at the village of Mineral 

 Springs, a short distance from the former localit}'. In the Ohio 

 State Herbarium we have a specimen collected at Batavia 

 Junction, Hamilton County, by Dr. B}'rnes, and one collected at 

 Plainville, close to the preceding station, b}' Mr. Langden. 



W. A. Kellerman. 



