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of all the new, rare, and otherwise interesting plants found. 



* * * And some folks thought all the new plants in East- 

 ern America iiad been discovered I * * * A new fern 

 book is coming out in time for the Holidays. * * * Rev. 

 Geo. B. Tilton, the author, says it will be called the "Fern 

 Lover's Companion". * * * It ought to be well received ; 

 there are onl}- two other xolumes on the sul)ject in ])rint. 



* * '''■ C. A. Weatherby sends us a copy of his paper on 

 the Group Polyt>odiuiu lonccohitiiiii in North America. 



* * * ll is published in "Contributions from the Gray 

 Herbarium of Harvard University." "" '"' * We sent him 

 one or two (observations on a rare species from South America 

 that in sonie w:iy has moved into Jamaica, h- * * jj-, j-j-^g 

 same publication, J. Francis Macbride upsets a lot of Rydberg's 

 highly ornamental names in the genus Paroscla. * * * 

 They are having a delightful " 'tis" and " 'tisn't" time and 

 nobody else is the wiser. * * >i^ Macbride must be a 

 friend of Piper's. He says that Piper's revision of Allocarya 

 is one of the finest. * * * y{q thinks the Amcriacn Bot- 

 anist is impolite in poking fun at a genus of 79 species founded 

 on the way the seeds are wrinkled. * ^ * gi^^t yye could 

 not swallow all those seeds! >k * * \\^onder what he 

 would do with a quart of dried peas * * * I'^e Gla- 

 diolus Bulletin, has begun publication. * * * It is edited 

 by Stanley Thorpe of Medford, Mass. * * * Lee R. 

 Bonnewitz is issuing a series of (lardcn Notes, principally on 

 irises and peonies. * * * Looks as if it might develop 

 into another plant journal. * * * It is published at Van 

 Wert, Ohio. * * * We learn from the Secretary of the 

 "Society for the Protection of Native New England Plants" 

 that it is not an additional society but a combination of three 

 others of similar nature. * * * This may account for 



