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fronds 6-15 inches high, 2-3 inches wide; pinnules 5-7 

 to each pinna, orbicular or cordate crowded and over- 

 lapping; pinnae about ten pairs. Type in my herbarium. 

 A form of this fern found in Ireland by Phillips has been 

 named f. rotund at a, but judging from the rather meager 

 description it is not identical with the specimens here 

 described. — Willard X. Clute. 



A NEW STATION FOR SELAGINELLA 

 DOUGLASII 



By Walter Albion Squires. 



Selaginella Douglasii is said to be one of the rarest 

 of the fern allies in collections. Maxon in his List of 

 the Ferns and Fern Allies of North America says that 

 it is found from northern California to British Columbia. 

 So far as I have been able to learn, it has never been 

 reported from Idaho or eastern Washington and Oregon. 



In the autumn of 1904 I first noticed the delicately 

 beautiful foliage of this plant on mossy shaded banks in 

 the Bitter Root Forest Reserve of Northern Idaho. 

 Since then I have found it at many places along the 

 Middle Fork of the Clearwater river from the point 

 where I first discovered it to the junction of the middle 

 and south forks of the Clearwater at Kooskia. In cool 

 shady spots at the foot of the precipitous hills, which 

 form the southern wall of the Clearwater canyon it is 

 often abundant. Its long creeping stems often spread 

 over rocks and banks of earth with a delicate lace-like 

 covering of beautiful green. 



Whether or not its range crosses the Bitter Root 

 Mountains into Montana I was unable to ascertain. I 

 hope to make further investigations next summer and 

 would be glad to collect specimens of this plant for 

 readers of the Fern Bulletin who wish them. It seems 

 to me that more of our fern students should become 

 acquainted with this delicate little plant, perhaps the 

 most beautiful of our Selaginellas. 



Kooskia, Idaho. 



