999. 
Prof. Eaton’s remarks, for the convenience of hunters after this fern. 
“Var. caudata, a West Indian fern, is not rare in Florida, and has 
been collected in Southern Alabama, and perhaps in others of the 
Gulf States.” “Fronds glabrous on both sides or even somewhat 
glaucescent; pinnules and segments very narrow, the terminal ones 
much elongated.”—z. It is somewhat late to notice Prof. John Rob- 
inson's ‘‘ Ferns in their Homes and Ours,” published by S. E. Cassino, 
Salem, Mass., and Dodd, Mead & Co., New York, but we cannot 
refrain from adding out testimony to the value and beauty of this 
little work. Fern collectors are at this period much favored. We 
have received from Prof. Eaton the list of Fendler’s Ferns of Trint- 
dad, reprinted from the Botanical Gazette of Nov. 1878, which 
are for sale at the Herbarium of Harvard University; Mr. Daven- 
port's Annotated Catalogue of North American Ferns, advertised in 
our last, will soon be out, if it is not already published, and Mr. 
Williamson of Kentucky advertises us that John P. Morton & Co. . 
Louisville, Ky., will shortly issue a handsomely bound volume of 
sixty-three Etchings of the Ferns of the Northern United States. 
The etchings will be printed on the best Whitman’s paper, 8x9 
inches, and will include all the Ferns that have been found in the 
Eastern and Middle States, 7.e. the ferns of Gray’s Manual. ‘The 
author has been induced to undertake this work by correspondents 
who were desirous to obtain the illustrations from the original plates. 
The price for the work will be $7.50 per copy, including mailing. 
Every impression will be an artist’s proof. There will be no letter 
press. A specimen illustration will be mailed to any address on the 
receipt of fifteen cents. Mr. Williamson writes that he has added 
three ferns to his Kentucky list; Asplenium parvulum, A. ebenoides, 
and Cheilanthes Alabamensis. This is the highest northern reach 
for the first, and anew locality for the rare and suspected second. 
—3. Catalogues. Flora of Richmond County, New York, by Arthur 
Hollick, Port Richmond, and N. I. Britton, New Dorp, New York. 
Price 50 cents. This is a list of about 1,000 phaenogamous and vas- 
cular cryptogamous plants, growing without cultivation on Staten 
Island, with occasional notes on the same. Quite a number of these 
are only known from a collection made for the late Dr. S. Elliott of 
New Brighton, the localities having been destroyed. Some others 
have been reported on authority, notably of our own Catalogue 
of Plants around New York, but by far the larger part have 
been personally verified by the authors. No doubt, many other 
species will be added in time, ¢.g., Carex subulata, Mchx., has been 
found in swamps near the railroad by Dr. T. F. Allen and ourselves. 
Some of the species admitted, on the other hand, may perhaps prove 
to be wrongly determined, we cannot help suspecting Viola delphini- 
folia, Nutt., for example, notwithstanding our respect for the opinion 
of the finder. We are surprised to find Slene antirrhina, L., rare on 
the Island, as we infer from its being reported from New Brighton 
only, on the authority of Mr. G. W. Wright. Opuntia vulgaris, | 
Mill., is probably O. Rafinesquii, Englm., see the note from Dr, 
Engelmann, BuLietin, IL, p. 34.  Lonicera parviflora, Lam., cer- 
tainly grows on the Island, though not reported. It is interesting to 
