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Prof. W. R. Dudley of Cornell is expected in California in De- 

 cember to take charge of the department of Phanerogamic Botany 

 at Stanford University. 



Miss Faustina Butler, in charge of the World's Fair exhibit of 

 California Wild Flowers, would be grateful for seeds, bulbs, etc., of 

 our showy wild flowers. Address, care of World's Fair Commis- 

 .^ion, Flood Building, San Francisco. 



Miss E. Cannon, 1402 Bush St., San Francisco, wishes to dispose 

 of her herbarium of named Californian plants; some hundreds 

 mounted on large-sized sheets, but the greater part unmounted. 



Botaniska Notiser, 1891, Part 4, 174, has the following note upon 

 Cystopieris B t^mf 211 DovRer : "According to Botan. Centralblatt 1891, 

 nr. 25, pp. 333-4, there is to be found in C. Baenitz's Herbarium 

 Europaeum under nr. 6,510 a new Cystopteris species distributed 

 and described under the name of C. Ba;yiitzii Dorfler. While the 

 spores of C. fragilis Bernh. are closely covered with pointed teeth, 

 the new species possesses spores which are perfectly smooth with- 

 out signs of teeth, only here and there furnished with isolated ir- 

 regular, folded ridges or 'combs.' The specimens were found on 

 slate rocks in the vicinity of Kongswold Dovre in Norway. The 

 species is besides only known by its namer from San Bernardino in 

 South California. Among the many specimens in the herbarium 

 ol the Lund University no one agrees with the above description 

 except one with the following: ' C. fragilis lobulato-dentata Wilde. 

 Elstad, in crevices close to a small brook 3/7, 1865, A. Falck.' Elstad 

 is situated in Gudbransdalen. The value of this new species must 

 be decided by future investigations." 



If species of ferns are to be founded upon markings of the surface 

 of the spores a fertile field is prepared for the species maker. The 

 numerous specimens of C. fragilis in the herbarium of the California 

 Academy of Sciences show every gradation of spore markings, 

 from mere irregular reticulations to the ordinary echinate form. 

 One example from Santa Clara County is covered with irregular 

 warty projections. Specimens from Rhode Island and from Hawaii 

 agree exactly with the description of C. Bceyiilzii, and others from 

 Sierra Mojada, Colorado, are both reticulated and echinate. 



The Harvard Herbarium has been reorganized under the name 

 of the "Gray Herbarium of Harvard University,'' in charge of Dr. B. 



