CATALOGUE. 395 



FILICES. 



BY PKOF. DANIEL C. EATON. 



?OLYPODiUM VDLGARE, L. Japan, Manchuria, and Turkey in Asia ; all 

 Europe ; Northern Africa and the Cape ; Madeira, Azores and Canaries. 

 North America from the Atlantic to Alaska, Vancouver's Island and Oregon, 

 and southward to the mountains of Alabama and Colorado, (694 Hall & Har- 

 bour; 688 Vasey, a dwarf alpine form ;) the true form is yet to appear from 

 California. From a rocky side-gorge of Cottonwood Canon in the "Wahsatch ; 

 7,000 feet altitude ; the specimens not unlike the usual smaller forms of the 

 Atlantic States. (1,357.) 



Adiantum pedatum, L. Japan, Manchuria and Northern India. North 

 America from Canada to North Carolina, and westward to California, Oregon 

 and Alaska. With the last ; 6-7,000 feet altitude. (1,358.) 



Adiantum Capillus- Veneris, L. From Japan and China to "Western 

 Europe ; Southern. Africa ; islands of the Atlantic, and the West Indies. In 

 America from North Carolina to the Indian Territory and southward to Bra- 

 zil and Juan Fernandez. Southern Utah, near St. George, (Dr. Palmer, 1870.) 



Pteris aquilina, L. Throughout the United States and nearly through- 

 out the world. In the Washoe and East Humboldt Mountains, Nevada,. and 

 in Provo Canon in the Wahsatch ; 6,000 feet altitude. (1,359.) 



Cheilanthes lanuginosa, Nutt. From Illinois to the Rocky Mountains 

 of British America, and southward to New Mexico and Arizona. California 

 is given as its western range by Hooker & Baker, but probably incorrectly. 

 On conglomerate and on limestone in the Wahsatch; 5-6,000 feet alti- 

 tude. (1,360.) 



Pell^a Breweri, D. C. Eaton. Proc. Amer. Acad. 6. 555. Eootstock 

 ascending, short, covered, hke the bases of the shining brown very fragile 

 stalks, with abundant narrow crisped fulvous chaffy scales ; fronds 2-6' high, 

 pinnate, the pinnae short-stalked, membranaceous, mostly 2-parted, the upper 

 segment larger ; segments and upper pinnae ovate or triangular-ovate, in the 

 fertile fronds narrower and margined with a rather broad continuous involu- 

 cre; veins evident, repeatedly forked. — Common on exposed rocks in the 

 "higher canons of the Sierras of California, and eastward in the East Humboldt 

 Mountains and in the Wahsatch ; 7-9,000 feet altitude. The stalks are seem- 



