LIST OF NEW MEMBERS. 



Mr. R. M. MilUgan, Holywood, co. Down (correction of last issue). 



Mr. W. Watson, Curator, Royal Gardens, Kew . 



Mrs. Anne C. C. Winser, Adderley Rectory, Market Drayton. 



Lady Dorrington, Lypiatt Park, Stroud, Glos. 



Sir Alfred Apperley, Rodborough Court, Stroud, Glos. 



Mr. Philip Dowell, Port Richmond, New York, U.S. America. 



Mrs. Stanley Powell, "Dorcas," Stapleford, Crawley. Sussex. 



NEW FERNS. 



From Sir Archibald Buchan Hepburn we have received fronds and 

 sketches of a very fine form of Hartstongue found in Wigtonshire, 

 Scotland, on an old wall in association with numerous normals, and 

 under conditions which stamp it as an absolutely wild sport. It 

 bears broad foliose ramo-cristate fronds on very bold Hues, and apart 

 from its handsome character is, we believe, unique as a wild variety 

 of that species recorded in Scotland, where it is rare, only occurring, 

 we believe, at a few places on the west coast. It would interest us 

 to hear of others. We have ourselves found it near Wigton, on the 

 Cree estuary. 



Polypodium vulgan (? var.). From Mr. W. Richter Roberts we have 

 received a frond from a plant found by him last year on a dry hedge 

 bank near Barnstaple. As a small plant it appears to be a replica 

 of P. V. cornubiense, but as it requires trial, we merely mention it now, 

 and will recur to it later on. 



"Bpitish Ferns and Their Varieties," by Charles T. Dmery, 



V.M.H., F.L.S., with forty magnificent coloured plates, 319 wood cuts 

 and other illustrations, and 96 monochrome reprints of a selection of 

 the choicest varieties, nature printed, by the late Col. A. M. Jones of 

 Clifton, with his original notes i?i exUnso. In cloth 7s. 6d. net ; in half 

 morocco, gilt, los. 6d. net. 



It will interest the members to know that by the enterprise of 

 Messrs. George Routledge & Sons, Ltd., the author has been enabled 

 to realize one of the pet ambitions of his life, viz. the production, on 

 practically untrammelled lines, of a thoroughly up-to-date and well 

 illustrated record of our native ferns in their specific and varietal 

 forms, together with such information as to their history, culture and 

 biological peculiarities as will render the work a thorough compendium 

 of knowledge for the amateur's reference plus indications of sources 

 of knowledge valuable to those who take an interest on the scientific 

 side. The addition of an appendix consisting of ninety-six of the 

 choicest of the late Colonel Jones' nature prints, accompanied by his 

 contemporary notes, which the author has been kindly permitted by 

 Miss Jones to use as a supplement, renders this book an absolutely 

 unique one, apart from its comprehensive and practical character in 

 other directions. Certainly no British Fern lover or Botanical Library 

 should be without it as the standard work on the subject, and it would 

 he an advantage to the author [the Editor of the Gazette and Secretary of the 

 British Pteridological Society) if orders for it were sent to him personally to 

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