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gyrea of Pteris quadriaurita. I do not feel at all sure 

 that it should not be made a new variety. 



Botrychium m atricari jefoliu M R. Br. I have recent- 

 received a specimen of this fern from Europe, where it 

 seems to be rather scarce. It was collected by J. Kaul- 

 fuss of Xiirnberg, and is labeled by him as " f. norma- 

 lis" This specimen exactly matches several specimens 

 of B. matricaricB folium in my own herbarium, both 

 in size and cutting. The whole frond is 16 cm. high, the 

 sterile leaf 4 cm. long, and i-| cm. wide. It is cut ex- 

 actly like our own specimens of the same size, with five 

 pinnae on each side, which are coarsely and bluntly 

 toothed. Among our native specimens there is a great 

 difference in the cutting of the leaf, but this European 

 specimen shows the same cutting as our most common 

 form. I have never seen Breyn's figure cited by Dr. 

 Underwood under B. ramosum, but here is an actual 

 specimen from Europe which is positively the same as 

 our B. matricarice folium. It is labeled by an able botan- 

 ist as the normal form of that species, and much better 

 evidence than a reference to Breyn's figure which is pro- 

 duced for proof that our plant is not the same as the 

 European. American pteridologists should be chary of 

 using the name B. neglect u m , which was simply given by 

 Prof. Wood in ignorance that it had already been named 

 abroad. 



Clayvillc, N. Y. 



Dr. R. J. Smith of Milpitas, Santa Clara Co., Cali- 

 fornia, recently collected some curious specimens of Cys- 

 to pteris fragilis in which the tips of the fronds and often 

 the tips of the pinnae are prolonged into slender tails 

 which are deeply notched. The tips are also often forked. 

 The pinnae that are r~t malformed show a tendency 

 from the normal in having the veins end in little points 

 much as they do in Dicksonia pilosiuscula f. schisophylla. 



