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long by .4cm. broad. Macrospores 400-540// in diameter, marked 

 with tall, thin laminae, usually anastomosing on part of the sur- 

 face, but some of them always isolated, often retuse spinules; 

 microspores light cinnamon, 2S-31//, muricate with low distinct 

 crests or broad blunt spinules. Differs from the type in its broader 

 leaves, broad velum, more scattered sculpture and brown micro- 

 spores, which are larger and densely muricate. 



The sculpture of the spores in the species is very character- 

 istic and fixed, being regularly honeycomb reticulated except 

 occasionally above, where there may be long crests or walls. The 

 variety, on the other hand, has reticulations as an exception, and 

 they are more circumscribed in area and larger than in the species, 

 the prevalent marking being jagged, irregularly anastomosing 

 crests, and spores are not rare which would pass for those of /. 

 eckinospora Braunii. Type, Ashe t Big Rock creek, Mitchell 

 Co., N. C, 1S93. (No. 1092). Cotypes: Flat Rocks, near Salis- 

 bury, N. C , growing partly emersed. Ashe 812. In bogs formed 

 by cold springs on Spring Mt., 3000 feet altitude, near Columbus, 

 N. C, May 5, 1S97, Biltmore Herb. 5564 (immature with very 

 stout leaves, 3mm. wide, but spores and roots characteristic.) Cold, 

 D °ggy places, base of craggy Mt , Buncombe Co., 5-19-98. Bilt- 

 more, 5564b. Very immature, Roandale Farm, N. C, Aug. 1, 

 1895, A. G. Wetherby. The last three specimens are from the 

 National Museum. 



In a recent letter Mr. Wetherby says: "Roandale Farm is 

 my plantation and Big Rock creek runs my mills." He very 

 kindly offers to collect a series for further study, and students 

 will probably be able to secure abundant specimens from him. 

 Seabrook, N. H. 



While in Vermont last Summer I found Asplenium angusti- 

 folium for the first time, and was interested in the variety of forms 

 of the pinme. The normal form was linear-lanceolate, acuminate, 

 entire. The fertile pinnae but half as wide as the sterile. In some 

 fronds four or five of the upper pairs of pinnae were perfectly 

 round, about the size of small peas, with the terminal pinna 

 lanceolate like those below. Other fronds were normal except 

 having pinnae that were lobate at the base, small, narrow lobes 

 growing a little blunter toward the apex. Is this the usual habit 

 of Asplenium angidstifolium ? — Mary IV. Bidwell, Glastonbury, 

 Conn. 



