OPHIOGLOSSACE/E. 



Ophioglossum pusillum Nutt. Said by Kunze (Am. 

 Jour. Sci., II. 6:82. July. 1848) to have been collected 

 at Ebenezer (in Effingham County, Southeast Georgia) 

 by Beyrich. Apparently not seen in the State since, but 

 it will probably turn up elsewhere near the coast when 

 botanists get down on their knees after it. 



Botrychium lunarioides Sw. (B. biternatum 

 Underw.). The only direct evidence of the occurrence 

 of this species in Georgia is a specimen from Burke 

 County, in the coastal plain (when and by whom collected 

 it is not stated), figured in Eaton's "Ferns of Xorth 

 America " (vol. 1, page 148, plate 20, figs. 3 & 8). This 

 specimen (said to be in the Gray Herbarium) has figured 

 in the controversies between Prof. Underwood and Mr. 

 Davenport over this and related species. 



Botrychium obliquum Muhl. Mostly in rich damp 

 woods, fruiting in fall. Known from DeKalb (Wilson) 

 and Clarke Counties in Middle Georgia and Sumter, Ran- 

 dolph and Berrien Counties in the coastal plain. 



Botrychium Virginianum Sw. In rich shady woods, 

 fruiting in spring. Frequent in the upper half of the 

 State, and extending southward to Burke, Washington. 

 Twiggs, Houston, and Randolph Counties in the Eocene 

 region of the coastal plain. 



HYMENOPHYLLACE/E. 



Trichomaxes Petersii Gray. Reported from Tal- 

 lulah Falls, near the northeastern corner of the State. 150 

 miles from any previously known station, by Seymour 

 (Torrcya, 3: 19-21. Feb.. 1903). This is our smallest 

 and rarest fern. It has a very anomalous distribution, 

 being known otherwise only from a few localities in the 

 Palaeozoic region of Alabama, and one in the coastal plain 

 of Mississippi, just at the inland edge of the Upper Oli- 

 gocene region (see Underwood. Torrcya, 3: 18. Feb., 

 1903). Several interesting ferns grow along this same 

 geological boundary in Georgia, and perhaps the Tricho- 

 mancs will turn up there too. 



