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Ferns of South China. — E. B. Copeland * gives a list of 4<s ferns 

 from South China. They were collected in Kwangtung province by 

 H. A. Kemp, in the mountainous interior of Kwangtung and Fokien 

 provinces by 0. G. Matthew, and in Fokien by S. T. Dunn. The species 

 enumerated are those which present especial interest. Among them are 

 eight new species. C. G. Matthew f publishes notes on the ferns of 

 Hongkong and the adjacent mainland, including 147 species and eight 

 varieties ; but he shows that nine of the older records are either erroneous 

 or require confirmation. The list is the result of four years' study and 

 collection. In the introduction the author describes the physical geo- 

 graphy of the island and the adjacent mainland, and indicates the chief 

 hunting grounds. The paper is privately printed. 



Corean Ferns. — H. Christy describes six species and three varieties 

 of ferns, all new to science, and collected in Corea and the island of 

 Quelpaert by the Abbe Faurie. The descriptions are included in 

 Leveille's Decades plantarum novarum, iv. and v. H. Christ § also 

 describes four new species and one variety of ferns from Corea collected 

 partly by Taquet, partly by Faurie. 



Ferns of the Philippines. — H. Christ || publishes a second selection 

 of new or imperfectly known Philippine ferns. Twelve of them are 

 described as new. E. B. Copeland H gives a revision of the Philippine 

 species of Athyrium. He insists upon the separation of Athyrium from 

 Asplenium, and unites with the former the genera Bvplazium and 

 Anisogonium. There are 46 species, and these he arranges in 14 groups, 

 adding a key for their more easy discrimination. Five of the species 

 are described for the first time. He gives the reasons for doing away 

 with the artificial divisions between the three genera, as first suggested 

 by Milde. The same author** publishes some notes upon Balantium 

 Kaulf. and Brainea Hook., two genera now ascertained to occur in the 

 Philippine Islands. He discusses the affinity of Balantium to Dennstcsdtia. 



Ferns of the Philippine Islands.ff— E. B. Copeland gives an account 

 of the Pteridophytes of the Horn of Negros, a mountain 6000 ft. high 

 in the extreme south of the island of Negros in the Philippine group. 

 The specimens represent 180 species, and were collected in March-June, 

 1908, by A. D. E. Elmer. Fourteen species and three varieties are new 

 to science. The mountain has an extremely wet climate. Descriptions, 

 notes, and criticisms are interspersed in the enumeration of the plants. 



New Lycopodium from Tahiti.$t— "W. Herter describes Lycopodium 

 Eaeckelii, a new species allied to L.funiforme Cham, of the West Indies. 

 L. HaecMii was collected in Tahiti by Ribourt in 1850, and is preserved 

 in the herbarium of the Paris Museum. 



* Philippine Journ. Sci. (Bot.) iii. (1908) pp. 277-84. 



t Edinburgh : Douglas and Foulis, 1908 (35 pp.). 



\ Fedde, Repertorium, Berlin, v. (1908) pp. 10-12. 



§ Tom. cit., pp. 284-5. 



|| Philippine Journ. Sci. (Bot.) iii. (1908) pp. 269-76. 



% Tom. cit., pp. 285-300. ** Tom. cit., pp. 300-1. 



tt Leaflets of Philippine Botany, ii. (1908) pp. 387-426. 

 XX Fedde, Repertorium, Berlin, v. (1908) p. 22. 



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