19 



Pteris aquilina \i Willd. Sp. PI. 5 : 402. 18 10. 



Pteris aquilina var. pseiidocandata Clute, Fern Bull. 8 : 39. 

 1900. 



This fern, species or variety, has troubled systematists for over 

 ninety years, and we confess our inability to add anything to the 

 information already published on the subject other than to call 

 attention to its long synonymy. Mr. George Nicholson has 

 recently expressed to the writer a belief that the so-called Pteri- 

 dhim aqidlimim of the northeastern States is a different species 

 from P. aquilinum of Europe. Surely the species is a variable 

 one in both countries as already seen in such field study as we 

 have been able to give it on the other side of the Atlantic. The 

 present plant has a range from Maryland to Texas, extending up 

 the coast line of New Jersey to Long Island. We have assigned 

 it no place in Dr. Small's forthcoming flora because of present 

 uncertainty regarding its specific or varietal limits. 



Anchistea Virginica (L.) Presl, 

 and Lorinseria areolata (L.) Presl 



These plants are neither congeneric with Woodwardia, of which 

 we must now regard W. radicans the type, nor with each other. 

 The former is probably nearest Blechnwn and the latter is phylo- 

 genetically very close to Onoclea sensibilis, in fact much closer 

 than to either of the plants with which it has long been generi- 

 cally associated. The acute Presl separated them as above over 

 a half a century ago, and we have followed his lead in Dr. Small's 

 forthcoming Flora of the Southern States. Incidentally the Cali- 

 fornian species is distinct from the Mediterranean one, and we 

 shall have to follow Mr. Maxon in giving it Breckenridge's name. 



Columbia University, 14 January, 1903. 



TRICHOMANES PETERSII FOUND ANEW* 



By A. B. Seymour 



Trichomanes Petersii is one of three plants recorded in Mohr's 



Plant Life of Alabama as found only in that state, and I have 



found no further information except by my own observations. 



* Read before the Botanical Club, A. A. A. S., at the Washington Meeting, 

 January, I 903. 



