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SO threatening as to oblige the government to send a detachment of 

 soldiers to protect the Mission. 



The exact manner of his death is unknown, but the presumption 

 is that, venturing too far into the forest while making some botanical 

 investigations, he was, in company with one of the guards, surprised 

 and killed by a party of the Nandis. 



William Wendte was one of the most self-sacrificing spirits I have 

 ever known. Self with him was always a secondary consideration, 

 and he was happiest when doing something for others. His highest 

 ambition was to fit himself for a career of usefulness, and his death 

 was a great loss. Possessed of an extraordinarily amiable character 

 he made friends of all who came in contact with him, and he will 

 be greatly missed by those who loved him. — G. E. I). 



AspLENiUM EBENEUM PROLiFERUM. — In a recent number of 

 Rhodora ^ the writer described a specimen of the above fern which 

 he found near Baltimore. A few days ago he came across another 

 while preparing to mount an unusually fine plant. Instead of the 

 two small, nearly entire fronds less than 4 mm. long, this plant had 

 two fronds the largest of which was about 47 mm. long. The other 

 frond was not yet fully developed, but it as well as the mature one 

 was pinnate and in no way different from fronds of the same size on 

 sporelings. 



Soon after this eleven more specimens of this form were found 

 during the Botanical Symposium at McCall's Ferry, Pa. Ten of 

 these were found in a space six inches square. They were of all 

 sizes from 50 mm. down to tiny plants with fronds 6 or 8 mm. in 

 length. All of these had pinnate fronds, and none of them showed 

 any approach to the simpler fronds of the plant first seen a year ago. 

 Only one of them was peculiar in having the young plant at the ex- 

 treme lower end of the stipe — practically in its axil — instead of at 

 the point where the lowest pinna had been attached. All of them 

 were on sterile fronds. From this and the dampness of the earth in 

 which they grew it seems evident that the proliferous character is 

 mainly caused by the accidental burying of the procuml^ent sterile 

 fronds under circumstances most favorable to the decided tendency 



1 Rhodora, V, 272, 1903. 



