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in the genus Xiphioptcris. Although seldom accused of 

 promoting changes in fern names, we confess to a lik- 

 ing for Xiphioptcris. The plant from which our draw- 

 ing was made was collected along the footpath from 

 Cinchona to Morces Gap in the Blue Mountains of 

 Jamaica. 



OPHIOGLOSSUM VULGATUM IN NEBRASKA 



By James M. Bates. 



W hile collecting plant rusts on Snake Creek, Cherry 

 County, Nebraska, August 21, 1012, my eye caught 

 this strange plant, which I had never seen before. It 

 grew six inches to nearly a foot high. At sight of it I 

 said to myself "That can be nothing but Adder's 

 tongue; what else could Adder's tongue look like?" 



It is new to Nebraska, and I think has not been found 

 in Iowa. It agrees perfectly with the descriptions in 

 the manuals. The Fern Bulletin, Vol. XX, No. 2 gives 

 but "a single plant" in Herbaria for Illinois. It would 

 be very interesting to learn, now, what localities across 

 the continent warrant the statement of range in our 

 manuals. Britton says "Pr. Edward Island to Alaska, 

 south to Florida." Gray 7th edition gives no range. 

 Small repeats Britton word for word. Nelson's Rocky 

 Mountain Flora knows it not. It is evidently a good 

 "find." There is twenty rods of it at least in a peaty 

 meadow in company with Elcocharis acuminata, car ex 

 interior, Aster junccus, Eupatorium perfoliatum, 

 Spartina Michauxiana, Agropyron pseudorepens, and 

 such ilk. This swamp is just north of Prideaux San- 

 ford's sod house on Snake Creek, Kennedy, Nebraska, 

 40 miles southwest of Valentine, the county seat. I 

 give these data so that the knowledge of this location 

 may not die with me. 



Red Cloud, Neb. 



