﻿THE FERN BULLETIN 



Arizonian almost wholly — at least unlike anything 

 eastern. Old acquaintances are more often found with 

 the lower orders, the small snails, the fungi, mosses 

 and liverworts. The evolutionary development from 

 one canyon to another would delight a Darwin. It will 

 take the conchologists twenty-five years to fairly survey 

 Arizona and New Mexico. 



Cochise county, about 150 miles square, in the 

 southeast corner of the territory, has forty ferns I am 

 sure of. Thirty-five of these are in the Chiricahua 

 (cherry cow) mountains. Nearly all of these and five 

 more are in the Huachuca (Wawchuca) mountains and 

 four more have been reported from the latter range that 

 I did not find. Eleven more are reported in Llnder- 

 wood from the territory. Thus there are probably 

 fifty-five in the territory. Three Selaginellas and two 

 Equisetiims are also reported. 



At the foot of the ranges, some 6,000 feet above the 

 sea, upon the small shadeless foot hills will be found 

 three of the smallest ferns, Cheilanthes Wrightii, 

 N otholaena Grayii and Gymno gramma hispid a, in the 

 hot sun. 



As the trail is ascended up the canyon, under the 

 cliffs and large rocks will be found Pellaea Wrightiana 

 first and then perhaps P. intermedia. P. ternifolia will 

 follow and then Cheilanthes tomentosa, C. Eatoni, C. 

 Lindheimeri, C. Fendleri, and Notholaena Hookeri. 

 If the hillsides are open, not covered with timber, then 

 Gymno gram ma triangularis and Notholaena sinuata. 

 In this list so far are some of the most beautiful ferns 

 of the earth, sure. These may continue up the moun- 

 tain 3,000 feet further in company with Cystopteris fra- 

 gilis, and the JVoodsias on the hillsides, Cheilanthes 

 Feei in crevices of the rocks that are so small that 



