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AETICLE IX. — LOCAL CHAPTERS. 



Any five members of the Society may organize local chapters of the 

 latter, and may make such rules for government as they may deem neces- 

 sary, provided such rules do not conflict with any of the provisions of 

 these By-Laws, and provided further, that all publications issued by such 

 chapter be first submitted for approval to the Board of Managers. In 

 addition to their regular membership dues, which must be paid to the 

 Treasurer of the Societ}^ members of the local chapters may raise and 

 disburse such funds as they may deem proper, for forwarding the ob- 

 jects of the Society. 



ARTICLE X. — AMENDMENTS. 



These By-Laws may be amended at any meeting of the Board of 

 Managers by a two-thirds vote of the members present, notice of the 

 proposed amendment having been submitted in writing to all the mem- 

 bers thereof at least two weeks previously. 



General Items. 



Recentlj^ in exploring a small wood covering about four acres, 

 through which flowed a brook, we found the following varieties of 

 ferns. As there were no rocks, the soil being somewhat moist and 

 swampy, of course none of the rock-growing species were present. 

 Adiantum pedahim, Pteris aquilina, Asplenium thelypteroides, Asplenium. 

 Filix-foemina, Dnjopferis Thelypteris, Dryopteris Noveboracense, Dryop- 

 feris cristafa var. Clintoniana, Dryopteris spimdosa, Dryopteris margiyialis, 

 Dryopteris aa^ostichoides, Cystopteris hulhifera, Onoclea sensibilis, Dick- 

 sonia pimctilobula, Osmunda cinnamomea, Osmunda interrupta. 



All of the above are abundant in this region, eastern New York, 

 with the possible exception of Asplenium thelypteroides and Dryopteris 

 cristata, which we do not remember to have seen in any other situa- 

 tion. It is seldom that so many varieties are found in so small an area. 

 Nearly all were found on a space of less than an acre. 



Frank Dobbin. 



One of the daintiest of wild flowers of June is the blossom of that 

 time-honored concomitant of roast turkey, the cranberry. While, how- 

 ever, everybody knows the berry, few are acquainted with the flower, 

 for the peat bogs where it blows in the choice fellowship of the stately 

 pitcher plant and the golden club, and of many a rare orchid, are quite 

 remote from the beaten paths of travel. 



The cranberry plant is a small, slender, somewhat trailing shrub, 

 with the neatest of evergreen leaves, from amid which a few thread-like 



