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and similar species, Mr. Fernald concludes that 

 Schizaea, along with several other plants common to 

 New Jersey or even farther south, spread northward 

 to Newfoundland over a land bridge that existed in 

 recent geological time. In this case, we ought to ex- 

 pect records of Schizaea from Cape Cod and from 

 Long Island, and these may possibly be forthcoming 

 when all the out-of-the-way comers have been ran- 

 saked. 



Nephrolepisissimus. — Just by way of record we 

 take a mournful pleasure in listing a few more sports 

 of the Boston fern. To give these the names adopted 

 by their proud, though botanically ignorant posses- 

 sors, they are : N. Goodii,, N. Harrisii and N. Spring- 

 lieldii. This last one is a gem. Apparently all you 

 need to do to latinize any sort of name is to add ii to 

 it. If a new form should happen to originate in Cin- 

 cinnati we shall look for N. Cincinuatiii at once. 



A Curious Panama Fern. — W. R. Maxon has re- 

 cently described in the miscellaneous collections of 

 the Smithsonian Institution, a Polypodium from Pana- 

 ma in which the apex of the frond is capable of con- 

 tinuous growth like species of Nephrolepis. The pin- 

 nules are many times forked, and the sori borne on 

 club-shaped vein endings that project beyond the seg- 

 ments of the frond on which they are located. The 

 fern is named Polypodium podocarpuin and is not dis- 

 tantly related to P. curvatum and various other species 

 of the tropies that make their habitat the trunks of 

 trees in the rain forest. 



Nephrolepis Muscosa. — Really we have lost count 

 of the many sports of Nephrolepis exaltata but we feel 

 sure that Nephrolepis muscosa has thus far escaped 

 mention. It is reported to be a sport from N. exaltata 



