186 THE PLANT WOELD 



tkis magazine has, in each of its recent issues, taken every opportunity 

 to sneer at the Wild Flower Preservation Society, and at the matter of 

 plant protection in general, as evinced by its approval of an article in 

 Leslie's Weekly making a plea for free license to children to pick flowers 

 in all the public parks. Friends of the wild flowers should be warned 

 against the wolf masquerading in sheep's clothing, and will do well to 

 give serious consideration to such utterances as these. We suspect 

 that the effort to belittle the work of this Society and to flatter the Bos- 

 ton organization has as its object the wish to create antagonism between 

 the two bodies ; but, fortunately, our relations are entirely cordial, and 

 both societies are working, and will continue to work, in perfect har- 

 mony, regardless of the envy or malice of those who are not in sym- 

 i:)athy with the movement. Charles Louis Pollaed, 



Secretary. 



General Items. 



The large herbarium of Mr. C. G. Pringle, the veteran botanist and 

 collector of Mexican plants, has been transferred to the University of 

 Vermont in connection with the Frost herbarium, and Mr. Pringle has 

 been appointed as Keeper. The University is to be congratulated upon 

 this important acquisition. 



The midsummer issue of the Fern Bulletin contains as frontispiece 

 an excellent portrait of Mr. Charles Francis Saunders, of Philadelphia, 

 widely known as a writer on botanical topics, and a frequent and wel- 

 come contributor to our pages. It also contains a most interesting 

 article by Mr. E. C. Anthony on " Fern Hunting in Nassau," with the 

 usual serials and short notes. 



In the Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club for July, Elizabeth G. 

 Britton presents some interesting notes on the bristle-fern, Trichonianes 

 radicans. Recent studies have led to the conclusion that several dis- 

 tinct species have hitherto been confused under the same name ; and 

 the suggestion is made that the plant of our Southern States, which is 

 uniformly different from the material from tropical and subtropical 

 regions, be known as Trichomanes Boschianum Sturm. 



What undoubtedly is the largest known tree in the world, says a 

 press dispatch from Fresno, Cal., has recently been discovered two and 

 one-haK miles from the Sanger Lumber Co.'s mill, at Converse Basin, 

 in the Sierras, in this county. The discovery was made by a party of 

 hunters, but little credence was given to the report, as every one 

 thought the description of this colossus of the forest was exaggerated. 



