lolor varii's sonicwli.it with I lie .iliinnlc spec inicns hroiiL';!!! 1)_\- Jhirlew 

 from Mt. Sail Anlnnid iiic :i \ry\ (l;iik piiiplc while those in the 

 chaparral Z()ne arc nf a lii^hlcr idlor and arc siunclimes pinkish. 



NOTES. (■IIli:il.\ .\()Mi:Xt lAlURlAL, OX SOL'J'liERN 

 CALIFORNIA FERNS. 



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Gi:ORGE L. MOXLEY. 



7H1LE making a somewhat extended study of our Southern 

 California Ferns a number of interesting items have come to 

 my attention, some of which ii has seemed worth while to pass along. 

 These deal for the most part with the changes of names and the 

 extensions of range of the ferns found in our region. 



It has been sho\vn by Maxon (Contrib. U. S. Nat. Herb. 17:173. 

 1913.) that our Goldback ferns, heretofore referred to Gymno- 

 gramme, Gymnogramma or Gymnopteris, should properly be called 

 I'ityrogramma Link. Our species therefore should be known as: 

 Pityrogramma triangularis (Kaulf.) Maxon. Gymnogramma trian- 

 gularis Kaulf. Enum. Fil. 73. 1824. 

 Pityrogramma viscosa (D. C, Eaton.) Dixon. Gymnogramma 



triangularis viscosa D. C. Eaton, F'erns of North America 2:16. 



1880. Ccroptcris viscosa Underwood. Bull. Torrey Club 29:631. 



1902. 



Notholaena cretacea Liebm., reported from San Diego County 

 in Cnderwood's Our Native Ferns, is shown (Contr. U. S. Nat. Herb. 

 17:601-604) to be an aggregate of three species. N. cretacea Liebm. 

 is confined to Mexico, N. neglecta Mavon, n. sp., is found in northern 

 IMexico and southeastern Arizona, and N. californica D. C. Eaton is 

 found in Southern California, Arizona and Lower California. 



In the American Fern Journal 7:106-109, 1917, the same author 

 shows that our southwestern fern known as Notholaena tenera Gil- 

 lies is not conspecific with that South American plant. He therefore 

 describes it as N. jonesii, taking as his type a plant collected by 

 ^Marcus E. Jones in Panamint Canyon, Inyo Co., Calif., May 4, 1897, 

 and citing two collections by Parish near Cushenberry Springs, San 

 Bernardino Co. 



The range of Cheilanthes feei Moore has been considerably ex- 

 tended b}^ the recent record of Parish, who reports it from Providence 

 Mts., San Bernardino Co. (Bot. Gaz. 65:334. 1918.. Mr. Maxon 

 also cites a collection of this plan at Mountain Spring, western border 

 of the Colorado Desert, San Diego Co., May 12, 1884, Internat. 

 Bound. Comm. 3080 {Schoenjeldt col.). Its range was previously 

 given as Illinois to Texas, Arizona and British Columbia. 



Another fern that has puzzled the writer has been referred 

 variously by collectors to Cheilanthes myriophylla Desv., C. cleve- 

 landii D. C. Eaton and C. fendleri Hook. At my earnest solicitation 

 Ivlr. Maxon made a study of the material of the various forms in the 

 National Herbarium and undertook to clear up the status of these 

 forms. C. myriophylla Desv. was described from South American 

 material and very likely does not reach the borders of the United 



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