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meadow near Brodowin. It differs from the type by its longer and 

 narrower lanceolate fronds, which do not exceed 2 ' 5 cm. in breadth ; 

 the fronds also are cuneate at base and their venation is very narrowly re- 

 ticulate. He could find no transitional forms to connect it with the type. 



New Species of Ceterach.* — J. B. Kiimmerle publishes a description 

 of a new species of Ceterach {C. PhiUipsianum) collected by Lort Phillips 

 in Somaliland, and preserved in the British Museum and the Kew Herba- 

 rium. Other collectors have brought it from Socotra and Abyssinia. 

 In its geographical distribution it lies between the northern C. officin- 

 ii rum and the southern C. cordatum. The differences of the three species 

 and of G. cordatum var. capense are set out in parallel columns in a table. 



Italian Ferns. f — M. Lojacono-Pojero gives an account of the Pteri- 

 dophyta of Sicily — fifty-three species and several varieties with descrip- 

 tions, synonymy and distribution. Four of the species and some of the 

 varieties are new to science. 



S. Sonimier,! in his Flora of the island of Pianosa, gives a list of 

 nine ferns, with notes on their babitats. 



Ferns of New York Botanical Garden.§ — G. V. Nash gives an account 

 of the tropical fern collection growing in the New York Botanical 

 Garden, and recently transferred to a new range of conservatories. The 

 tree-ferns and larger species are kept in one house, and the remainder of 

 the collection, arranged in botanical sequence in order to facilitate com- 

 parative study, occupies the other houses. Brief notes on the different 

 groups are given. 



North American Ferns. || — W. N. Clute writes an obituary notice 

 of James Ansel Graves, one of the founders of the American Fern 

 Society. He also discusses 1F the climbing fronds of Lygodium, with 

 reference to the question whether they should be regarded as leaves of 

 unlimited growth or as branched secondary stem. He also figures and 

 discusses ** an aberrant form of Lycopodium, the spikes of which are con- 

 tinued above as simple vegetative shoots. Under the title " Pterido- 

 graphia " fj he gives a series of notes on such subjects as the gametophytes 

 of Botrychium, the Lady Fern, Botrychium dissectum, Asplenium ebenoides. 



E. W. Vickers %% describes some habitats of the inconspicuous Asple- 

 nium pinnatifidum in a park in Ohio. 



S. F. Blake §§ gives a description of Lycopodium tristachyum Pursh 

 var. sharonense, a new variety found in New Hampshire. 

 A. Prescott || || writes of the Lady Fern and its folk-lore. 



F. C. Green if writes a short note on the ferns of the " bad lands " 

 in Indiana. The only species to be found are Woodsia obtusa, Gystopteris 

 fraijilis, two species of Equisetum, and, in stagnant pools, Marsilia vest it u. 



* Bot. KoeL, 1909, Heft vi. (1910) pp. 286-90; and Beibl., p. 75. 

 + Flora Sicula, iii. (1909) pp. 389-411 (1 fig.). 

 % Nuov. Giorn. Bot. Ital., xvii. (1910) pp. 138-40. 

 § Journ. New York Bot. Garden, x. (1909) pp. 256-61 (2 pis.). 

 || Fern Bulletin, xviii. (1910) pp. 1-4. 



T Op. cit., pp. 7-9. ** Op. cit., pp. 10-12. 



tt Tom. cit., pp. 13-19. tt Tom. cit., pp. 4-7. 



§§ Tom. cit., pp. 9-10. |||| Tom. cit., pp. 12-13. 



If Tom. cit., pp. 16-17. 



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