LOGTG. Calamus microcarpuse Bects. fe SPs Lotty: 
tree climber on a densely wooded ridge of the beruring 
river at 4500 feet; o14 stems green, smooth, looping, 
the size of a man’s emall finger; & inches thick at the 
leafy top; leseves alternatingly scattered, 6 to 10 inghes 
epert, 7 te 16 feet long excluding the wlender hooked 
rachis, ascendingly recurved, the besel 2 to & feet ieat- 
leee; rachis flattened, 1/2 inch wide at the base, more 
spinescent on the wnper side toward the base, toward the 
apex provided with senttered hooks on the lower e@ide, 
green, herd; sheaths green, densely provided with 2 inches 
ma, brewn needle pointed spines which flatten towsrds 
ne eenish beses and which are arrenged in ring like 
fashion, smooth immediately penesth the ettachment of 
the petiole; Ligule & inches long, Spinescent; leeflete 
recurved towards the tips, shining smooth except for the 
setae like heirs especially on the wpper side; young 
infrutescence exillery, 2 te 2 feot long, strongly reaurved, 
oe fruiting branchlets 6 inohes Long, arranged 
@long the upper ig wi th atrongly reen) bra nehle tat 
bracts “nfl é lark ares: sora whe t ee tend 38e * fruit 
bracts tins derker green; mbazlcho ineh thick 
re’ fodeya, May, 
L909» 
Upon poten tte amooth ¢ t 31 : 
swempy ground at 3500 of the “aruring river; 
stocka brown, flexible, numerous sly branched; stipes 
Breen, ieseending, anite delicste: pinnse sett memhra- 
filet, xreener on ry Bide; sori brown; 
aod 5” Fares fodaya, May, 19062 
LO0678. Litees quergecides Fim. “reo £65 feet high 
in woods of é half swemapy reglen south ef the Beruring 
branches tty i4uz mostly at the tep; 
leeves rigid bake + BBG ons ing Sy 
4 ‘fret te 
2 pets, the turd By tanta Ghovt ‘thiek brown 
odes : pte lone, the basel portion scmewhat flettened, 
ebpyriform, more or isss lentice led; nvts entirely 
emelosed in the yellowish ereen Qavees; wood very eoft, 
yellowigh throughout, "Mebere~-an." fodeva, May, L909. 
Athyriua wordwardicides (Pre#]) Uhrist. 
gerne in fertile half eweapy soil of dense 
woods af ) feet south or sz mating river; eteme & 
inches thick, veually utah dbo ni time tely erect, & 
to 5 feet high or long; «1d tiper pereiatent on. the 
stems towerd the apex ox sree frends 5, ¥% to 11, eseoend~ 
ingly sprending, gradually recurved, green exoept the 
dull brown or nearly black beses, terete, srooeved along 
the upper side, 1/3 ineh thick, more or less Spimmlose: 
fronds withont the leafless 1 to 2 feet, long stipe 
% feet long; mein pifigse Slightly recurved, seattering 
and reduced "at the base, more nonerous toward the epex; 
ultimete segments Ylat, sulmembrenous, sonewhet lighter 
green beneath; seri brown; ¢eommon in loesl places; 
"DelLobungens"  fotaya, May, 190%. 

