THE FERN BULLETIN 



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and at maturity form a heavy brown margin to the 

 pinnae. 



The specimen figured as our frontispiece is from the 

 ferns of Southern Brazil named by Dr. Rosenstock. 

 Certain small differences in the stipe and blade led him 

 to describe it as a new species, Doryopteris stierii, in 

 Hedwigia, but he has later regarded it as a variety. 

 In the same journal two additional forms of this spe- 

 cies are described. 



REDISCOVERY OF CHEILANTHES PARISHII. 



BY C. F. SAUNDERS. 



On a visit to Palm Springs, in the Colorado Desert, 

 Southeastern California, in March of the present year, 

 I had the good fortune to collect a single plant of 

 Cheilanthes Parishii — one of the rarest of North 

 American ferns. It was originally discovered by Mr. 

 S. B. Parish (for whom it was named) in the same 

 locality 27 years ago and has never been reported since. 

 My specimen grew in a crevice of rock on the side of 

 Andreas Canon, where the first collection was made, 

 and though I searched carefully for more plants of it, 

 could find none. 



Pasadena, California. 



[To Mr. Saunders' interesting and valuable note, we 

 take the liberty of adding the following observations 

 by Mr. S. B. Parish, originally published in Vol. IX, 

 No. 4, of The Fern Bulletin. — Ed.] 



It is now some twenty years since the type specimens 

 of these two species [Cheilanthes tibrillosa and C. 

 Parishii] were gathered; their validity has not been 

 doubted by any subsequent student of ferns, but they 

 remain known only from the original collections. To 



