ZOOLOGY AND BOTANY, MICROSCOPY, ETC. 649 



Woodwardia radicans in Italy.*— R. Pampanini gives an account of 

 the distribution of Woodirardia radicans and some other ferns in Italy. 

 It is recorded that P. A. Micheli found this species at Ferrara in 17K>. 

 That is an error. Micheli found it at Ferriera, in the Valle di Amain" ; 

 he also found it at Ischia, and at Casamicciola in the Vallone dei Bagni. 

 It was refound at the first station in 18(58 by Nevile Reid and Lacaita, 

 at the second iu 1831 by Gussone. Micheli has the credit of being the 

 first to find also Pteris hmgifolia in Italy, namely with Woodwardi 

 radicalism the Valle di Amalfi. Other records by Micheli, namely 

 Pteris cretica near Sorrento, Scolopendrium Hemionitis in the Tuscan 

 Archipelago, etc., have been confirmed. But his Asplmium fontanum 

 near Sorrento is doubtful, and may be one of three other ferns. His 

 A. obovatvm in the island of G-orgona is correct. 



Ferns of Schleswig-Holstein.f — P. Junge publishes a detailed 

 account of the Pteridophytes of Schleswig-Holstein, of which there are 

 but 40 species, whereas there are 500 hybrids and monstrosities. He 

 also discusses the migrant groups, distribution groups, etc. 



Pteridophytes of Libya. J — E. Durand and G. Barratte give a list of 

 five ferns and an Equisetum recorded for Tripoli and Cyrenaica, with the 

 distribution and synonymy of the species. 



North American Pteridophytes. — E. J. Hill § publishes some notes 

 on Lycopodium porophilum and its habitats in the dells of Wisconsin. 

 He shows that it is undoubtedly distinct from L. lucidulum. 



W. N. Clute |] gives a figure and description of Asplenium Andrewsii 

 Xels., a Colorado fern, which may perhaps prove to be conspecific with 

 A. Bradleyi. 



A. B. Klugh 1T publishes notes on the Pteridophyta of southern New 

 Brunswick, where the special feature is the abundance of Lycopodium. 

 He enumerates eighteen ferns and fourteen fern-allies. 



W. N. Clute** describes and figures Dicksonia pilosiuscula f . Poyseri, 

 a beautiful fern found in Maine in 1907 by H. W. Merrill. 



A. Prescottft writes about the oak and beech ferns and their habits. 



W. N. Clute Xt discusses the perplexing forms of Botryc/iium, and 

 especially the question of B. simplex, the rarity of which has caused 

 much misunderstanding. Some authors have mistaken it for young- 

 plants of B. matricarisefolium. He cites some remarks by H. TVoynar, 

 and figures some Tyrolese forms of B. simplex. 



F. C. Greene §§ publishes notes on the ferns of north-western Missouri, 

 a disappointing district which hitherto has yielded but eight species. 



* Nov. Giorn. Bot. ItaL, xviii. (1911) pp. 225-42. 



t Jahrb. Hamburg. Wiss. Anstalt, xxxii. (1910) pp. 47-245 (21 figs.). 



% Florse Libycse Prodromus. Geneve: Romet, 1910, pp. 281-2. 



§ Fern Bull., xix. (1911) pp. 1-3. 



Fern Bull., xix. (1911) pp. 3-4 (1 pi.). 



f Fern Bull., xix. (1911) pp. 4-7. 

 ** Fern Bull., xix. (1911) pp. 7-8 (fig.). 

 tt Fern Bull., xix. (1911) pp. 9-11. 

 %\ Fern Bull., xix. (1911) pp. 11-14 (fig.). 

 §§ Fern Bull., xix. (1911) pp. 14-15. 



