—82— 



must be regarded as a rarity here. All told, there are about 

 forty-five species of ferns in Central New Jersey. 



ADDITIONS TO THE CALIFORNIA FERN FLORA. 



By S. B. Parish. 



Perhaps the most useful purpose served by plant lists, such 

 as the series of State fern-floras, now in course of publication in 

 the Fern Bulletin, is that they supply a basis for additions and 

 corrections, and thus a fuller and more accurate knowledge 

 of the plant inhabitants of a region is eventually secured. But 

 the lists themselves are hardly published before they need re- 

 vision. My own recent list of the California ferns already re- 

 quires some additions, which are of sufficient importance for 

 record. 



Botrychium Coulteri Underw. Mr. Gilbert informs me that 

 he has a specimen of this plant, collected in August, 1883, by Mrs. 

 C. C. Bruce, in King's Valley, at the base of Lassen Butte, in the 

 extreme northeastern corner of the State. The flanks of Lassen 

 abound with hot springs, many of them boisterous and charged 

 with mineral, so that the plant finds here an environment quite 

 like that of the Yellowstone, where it was first collected. 



Cheilanthes myriophylla Desv. Very good specimens of this 

 fern were collected by Mr. A. A. Heller, July, 1902, near the sum- 

 mit of Mt. Sanhedrin, in Lake county. 



Aspleniiim septentrionale Hoffm. This fern has been col- 

 lected by Mr. T. S. Brandegee on San Pedro Martir Mt., in the 

 northern part of the peninsula of Lower California, where he re- 

 ports it as growing in abundance. It may be expected, there- 

 fore, at some of the higher altitudes of the southern Sierra. By 

 reason of its diminutive size, and peculiar aspect, it might easily 

 escape detection, and collectors should be on the outlook for it. 



Poly stic hum Lemmoni Underw. Mr. C. F. Baker's last distri- 

 bution includes specimens of this rare fern from Mt. Eddy, in 



