New Location for Ophioglossum Crotalophorides Walter in Arkansas

Journal of the Arkansas Academy of Science Volume 7 Article 18 1955 New Location for Ophioglossum Crotalophorides Walter in Arkansas Jewel Moore University of Central Arkansas Inez Hartsoe University of Central Arkansas Follow this and additional works at: http://scholarworks.uark.edu/jaas Part of the Botany Commons Recommended Citation Moore, Jewel and Hartsoe, Inez (1955) "New Location for Ophioglossum Crotalophorides Walter in Arkansas," Journal of the Arkansas Academy of Science: Vol. 7 , Article 18. Available at: http://scholarworks.uark.edu/jaas/vol7/iss1/18 This article is available for use under the Creative Commons license: Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-ND 4.0). Users are able to read, download, copy, print, distribute, search, link to the full texts of these articles, or use them for any other lawful purpose, without asking prior permission from the publisher or the author. This Article is brought to you for free and open access by ScholarWorks@UARK. It has been accepted for inclusion in Journal of the Arkansas Academy of Science by an authorized editor of ScholarWorks@UARK. For more information, please contact , . * Journal of the Arkansas Academy of Science, Vol. 7 [1955], Art. 18 A NEW LOCATION FOR OPHIOGLOSSUM CROTALOPHOROIDES WALTER IN ARKANSAS1 JEWEL MOORE and INEZ HARTSOE Arkansas State Teachers College In the spring of 1951, a blade or two of an Ophioglossum was found among some Hoastonia gathered from the lawn of the Conway Memorial Hospital at Conway, Arkansas. It was thought that this fern might be 0. crotalophoroid.es , which had been reported from Prescott, Arkansas. (2) . The entire plants, which were needed for identification, could not be found. However, several plants were gathered March 24, 1953, and identified as Ophioglossum crotalophoroid.es Walter. The plants found at this time were growing in a dense mat of Hous tonia, Trifolium, and grasses, in a low, damp place, on the lawn of the hospital. The description of the fern agrees with that of 0. crotalophoroides in the monograph of the family (1). The cordate blade of the fern is borne horizontally, and the slender fertile segment exceeds the blade. The rootstock is globose-bulbous, about 3 mm in diameter. Specimens have been deposited in herbaria of Arkansas State Teachers College, the University of Arkansas, the University of Tennessee, and the Gray at Harvard. This location extends the known range of this fern northward from Nevada in southern Arkansas to Faulkner County. County REFERENCES " 1. Clausen, Robert T. "Amonograph of the Ophioglossaceae. Men. Tor. Bot. Club, 19, pp. 120-123, 157-158 (1938). 2. Moore, Dwight M. "A New Fern Record for Arkansas." Proc. Arh. Acad. Sci.,3, pp. 33-34 (1950). • •1 ! • i Contributions from the Botanical Laboratory, the University of Tennessee, N. Ser. 152. 63 Published by Arkansas Academy of Science, 1955 I 63  (...truncated)