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fronds covered with soft brown hairs, which fall away with age 
except at very base, reddish brown, 214-5 in. long; mature frond 
“II in. long, 2-3 in. wide, pinnate, tapering abruptly at base to 
auricles, but gradually to tip of frond, sometimes 5 in. of upper 
end of frond being about 54 in. wide throughout, while sometimes 
the shape is very regular, tapering to a blunt point and almost 
Pinnate to the end; pinnae opposite or alternate, nearly linear, 
blunt, notched on lower side at base, slightly auricled on upper 
side, irregular in length but presenting a generally uniform char- 
acter; surfaces naked, rachis only pubescent; costae and veins 
very distinct beneath, blackish purple; veins all simple, terminat- 
ing short of the edge, each bearing at the end a round sorus with 
€dge of frond showing beyond it; edges and ends of pinnae 
ciliate with scattered hairs of the same color as veins, which fall 
away with age; receptacles punctured through to upper side of 
pinnae, each one bearing a white button, after the fern reaches a 
certain age; texture coriaceous, veins not showing on upper side. 
Nearest to P. Plumula but differs in texture, in larger size, in 
broader pinnae, in more distinct venation and in the white buttons 
©n upper side of frond. 
Blue Mountains, Jamaica, collected by Alexander Moore. 
Botanical Notes. 
Lhe Vermont Botanical Club held an extremely interesting 
Session at its second annual meeting on February 5th and oth 
1897. 
The meetings were held in one of the lecture rooms in the 
new Williams Science Hall. Papers were read in person by Presi- 
dent Ezra Brainerd and Profs. E. A. Burt and H. M. Seeley, of eae 
Middlebury College; Profs. L. P. Jones, G. H. Perkins and F. A. 
Waugh, of the University of Vermont; Mr. C. G. Pringle, of 
Charlotte, Vermont, and several others. 
Mr. Pringle’s paper, which will be printed in full in another 
issue of the BuLLETIN, was probably the most highly appreciated 
of all. We have all known of Mr. Pringle’s great achievements as 
a collector and explorer, but I think very few realize what a de- 4 
lightful speaker and writer he is when induced to lay aside his 
habitual timidity and reserve. oe ares a 
The importance of a botanical survey of the State —_ 
