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to consist of more than one species if suites of the specimens were 

 studied. Having consulted the largest collections of this genus 

 in both Europe and America, Dr. L. M. Underwood is convinced 

 that instead of a single species we have no less than nine, and one 

 variety. His observations are published in the Bulletin of the 

 Torrey Botanical Club for March, 1S98. Six species and one 

 variety are described as new, one variety has been raised to 

 specific rank and one species — S. Oregana — has received its 

 rightful name of struthioloides. Of these species we have but 

 two in northeastern America— S. rupestris and the rare S. torti- 

 pila, the latter reported from the Carolinas only. S. rupestris 

 Fendleri is found in Colorado and New Mexico ; S. IValsoni in 

 ,4 the high altitudes of the Sierra Nevada and neighboring moun- 

 tains;" 5. mutica in Colorado, Arizona and New Mexico. 5. 

 arenicola (described in the paper as S. arenaria) is reported 

 from Florida and Texas ; S. rupincola from New Mexico, Arizona 

 and Mexico; S. Bigelovii from California; S. struthioloides from 

 Oregon, and S. extensa from Mexico. 



— C. W. Hope, of England, writing of Asplenium Glenniei 

 Baker, in the Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club for Febru- 

 ary, is inclined to consider the plant collected for this by Lemmon 

 in Arizona as identical with another species, A. exiguum Bedd, 

 of the Himalayan mountains. At present the data for the oc- 

 currence of Glenniei in the United States rests with the Lem- 

 mon specimens. A. exiguum is a common species in the Hima- 

 layan region. It is proliferous on the pinnae throughout and also 

 at the apex. The American specimens from which A. Glenniei 

 was first described were not proliferous, but the Arizona speci- 

 mens are said to exactly resemble the Himalayan fern in this 

 respect. If the two are found to be the same, then A. exiguum 

 being the older name, will have to be adopted for our plant. The 

 author says of exigtium : "It spreads itself out like a star, the 

 prolonged fronds bending backward until they hang their tips in 

 the moss, seeking for cracks or crevices or earth in which to root. 

 The fronds last for two years at least, living through the winter 

 in frost and snow, and through the succeeding dry, hot season in 

 a shriveled and apparently dead state until the rainy season comes 

 in June or July, when they uncurl, and then frequently, if they 

 have not already done so, produce young plants on their tips or 

 on their pinme. This is followed by the springing up of fresh 

 fronds from the same roots which are not generally proliferous in 

 that season." 



