The American Botanist 



A Quarterly Jotirnal of Kconotnic (SL Ecological Botanx 



WILLARP N. CLUTE, EDITOR 



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THE FERN BULLETIN 



In 1913, at the completion of its twentieth volume, The Fern Bulletin was 

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 pages each and since they cover the entire formative period of American Fern 

 study, are invaluable for reference. The majority of new forms discovered in 

 recent years have been described in its pages. First six volumes out of print. 

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A BOTANICAL 

 ENCYCLOPEDIA 



Think of a volume of 3296 pages — a volume larger than the largest dictionary 

 — filled with thousands of articles and notes on the interesting phases of 

 botany! Merely to read it through would require more than 100 hours. Such a 

 volume is found in the back numbers of the American Botanist. The articles 

 are short, crisp and original and as fresh as when first written. Mere lists of 

 species and tiresome technical articles are excluded, but much space is given to 

 fragrance, color, nectar, latex, drugs, dyes, food and fiber plants, seed dispersal, 

 pollination and a multitude of other subjects with which the real botanist must 

 be familiar. There is no botanical publication in the whole world that contains 

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