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varieties, why may not the same peculiarity in Osmunda 

 cinnamomea be entitled to the same dignity. I have 

 found a large quantity of fronds of the last named fern 

 very beautifully incised, as much so as any fern I ever 

 saw. I think they may properly be labelled 0. cinna- 

 momea incisa." It may be added that this form and the 

 form bipinnatifida may likely be found in any deep- 

 shaded half bog, in which the species is plentiful. Of the 

 two, bipinnatifida seems the more common. It may be 

 distinguished by its even, rounded, basal, segments and 

 by the fact that the pinnules thus lobed are likely to be 

 much longer than the other pinnules of the pinna. As 

 may be seen from the illustration the form is much 

 handsomer for cultivation than the ordinary plant. If 

 the variation is permanent it would no doubt have a 

 commercial value. Experiments made in transplanting 

 it, however, have not been successful, the fronds of sub- 

 sequent years reverting to the type. — Willard N. Clute. 



Southern Station for Botrychium Simplex. — Last 

 summer in the San Bernardino Mountains I made the 

 discovery of a new station for Botrychium Simplex. I 

 found, in a far out-of-the-way canon, a single specimen 

 of this fern, which I submitted to Mr. S. B. Parish, of 

 San Bernardino, whom you probably know as a botanical 

 authority. He says the plant has never before been seen 

 in this extreme southwest in all his thirty years' botanical 

 experience ; a fact quite worthy of note. The plant was 

 found at nearly 8000 feet altitude — but a few score of 

 yards, in fact, from the spot where Mr. Parish established 

 the first Southern California station for Polypodium vul- 

 gare some years ago. It grew amid precipitous rocks 

 almost side by side with summer mountain snow banks.— 

 G. Ross Robertson, Mentone, Cal. 



