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Trichomanes Petersii A. Gray- 

 In addition to the Georgia station noted in this issue of Tor- 

 reya by Mr. Seymour, Professor S. M. Tracy has recently sent 

 me specimens from Saratoga, Mississippi. It is more than likely 

 that this smallest of our native ferns will be found to have as wide 

 a range as T. Boschianum, as it is very likely to be passed by as a 

 liverwort. Saratoga is not on the ordinary map, but is in the 

 southern portion of the State in quite a distinct region from the 

 original locality. 



Phymatodes exiguum (Hew.) 

 Polypodium serpens Sw. Nov. Gen. et Sp. PI. 131. 1788. 

 Not Forst. 



Polypodium exiguum Hew. Mag. Nat. Hist. 2: 458. 1838. 

 Not Griseb. 1864. 



Polypodium Swartzii Baker, Syn. Fil. 357. 1868. 

 Jenman has pointed out * that the above synonymy is the cor- 

 rect one although he retains the genus Polypodium in its widest 

 sense, following the Kew practice. He cites also the necessity of 

 renaming P. exiguum Griseb. and this seemed to deter him from 

 making the change which he surely recognized as inevitable. 

 As we have used this name in Dr. Small's forthcoming flora, it 

 may be well to indicate the reasons here which the above syn- 

 onymy will make apparent. 



Hypolepis repens (L.) Presl 



Professor C. S. Williamson, of Philadelphia, has sent me a 

 single plant of this species collected, in " rich damp woods, Oak- 

 land, Flai, August, 1895," and says it bears no evidence of hav- 

 ing been introduced. If this is really indigenous as it appears to 

 be, it adds a new genus to the United States. Oakland is near 

 the middle of the peninsula, south of Lake Apopka and in a 

 region which has scarcely been visited by the botanist. It is 

 hoped we may hear further of this interesting locality. 

 Pteris latiuscula Desv. Ann. Soc. Linn, de Paris, 6 : 303. 1827. 



Pteris aqirilina Michx. Fl. Bor.-Am. 2 : 262. 1803. Not L. 



Pteris caudata Schkuhr, Crypt. Gen. pi. g6b. 1809. Not L. 



*Bull. Bot. Dept. Jamaica, 4 : 199. 1897. 



