ZOOLOGY AND BOTANY, MICROSCOPY, ETC. 593 



Among the species cultivated were Polypodium Phymatodes, P. nigrescens, 

 and Pteris droogmansia. The methods and precautions adopted are 

 described. 



Madeira Ferns.* — C. A. Menezes has produced a catalogue of 

 Madeira ferns, translated by H. Gilbert. He gives descriptions of 

 forty-five species and some varieties, and provides a key to the genera. 



North American Ferns. — R. C. Benedict! gives a brief account of 

 the fern collections of the New York Botanical Garden, as found in 

 the herbarium, the palreobotanical section, the gardens, the houses, 

 and the economic section. He also writes J about the type and identity 

 of Dryopteris Glintoniana, D. C. Eaton's description of which seems 

 to have been based not on Clinton's specimen cited as type, but 

 upon other specimens in Eaton's herbarium. Clinton's specimen is 

 probably a cross with D. Goldiana. E. J. Winslow § publishes some 

 notes on Nephrodium hybrids collected in Orleans County, Vermont, 

 where they abound in a primeval swamp. Ten hybrid forms were found 

 and identified. The author discusses the various hybrids, their fre- 

 quency of occurrence, etc. C. T. Simpson || gives an account of diffi- 

 culties met with whilst collecting in the Everglades of Southern Florida. 

 New ferns and other plants were discovered. A. Prescott 1f publishes a 

 simple account of Nephrodium noveboracense. E. L. Lee ** writes of the 

 the ecology of Asplenium Bradleyi, as found near {Bridgeport in North 

 Alabama. The plants grow out of seams of dry sandstone rocks at an 

 altitude of 1600 ft. W. N. Cluteff gives an account and a figure of 

 Lycopodium alopecuroides var. adpressum f. polyclavatum, an abnormal 

 fasciated form known only from southern Staten Island until recently, 

 when it was found at Sanford, Florida. He also gives an account %% of 

 Asplenium pwnilum, a dwarf spleenwort, found in Jamaica and other 

 parts of the tropics. He also reproduces, §§ with some comments, 

 J. H. Schaffner's recently published arrangements of the groups of the 

 Pteridophyta. J. Shepard |||| describes a method of preparing blue print 

 paper for making fern prints. W. N. Clute ^ publishes an article on 

 "Travelling Ferns." C. F. S. *** writes about Scolopendrium vulgare, 

 one of the rarest of American ferns. 



South American Ferns.ftt — &■ Hieronymus publishes the fourth 

 part of his enumeration of the Pteridophytes collected by A. Stiibel 

 during his journeyings in Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Bolivia. He 

 enumerates 275 ferns and 27 fern-allies, including descriptions of 18 

 new species and 19 new varieties. 



* Funchal : Diario Popular (1906) 22 pp. 

 t Journ. New York Bot. Gard., x. (1909) pp. 75-81 (figs.) 

 I Torreya, ix. (1909) pp. 133-40 (2 figs.). 



§ Fern Bulletin, xvii. (1909) pp. 33-88. || Tom. cit., pp. 38-41. 



% Tom. cit., pp. 42-3. *» Tom. cit., pp. 43-5. 



tt Tom. cit., pp. 45-8 (fig.). XX Tom. cit., pp. 48-50 (pi.). 



§§ Tom. cit., pp. 50-4. |]!| Tom. cit.,|pp. 54-5. 



HI Tom. cit., pp. 55-7. *** Tom. cit., pp. 57-8. 



ttt Hedwigia, xlviii. (1909) pp. 215-303 (6 pis.). 



