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The subscription for 1912-13 is now due, and the 

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 an early date to his address, 11, Shaa Road, Acton, 



London, W. 



The Editor. 



OUR FRONTISPIECE. 



Blechnum Spicant. 



This perfectly evergreen species is distinguished by its 

 bearing two distinct forms of fronds, viz. barren pinnate 

 ones forming a lax rosette and erect much narrower and 

 longer ones which bear the spore heaps in lines covered 

 with an indusium springing from within the margin and 

 independent of it. The foliage is very hard, whence the 

 popular name of Hard Fern. It has sported freely, pro- 

 ducing, as will be seen, some very pretty and distinct 

 varieties. 



1. Normal form ii. trinervio coronans 



2. polydactylum 12. lineare Barnes 



3. imhricato cristatum 13. coiicinnum Uruery 



4. ramosum Kinahan 14, congestum 



5. trinervium Hodgson 15. serratum Airey No. 2 



6. ramo-cristatum 16. sub-piumosum Phillips 



7. glomeratum Maunderii 17. imbricatum Snell 



8. ramo-cristatum robustum 18. serratum Airey No. i 



9. Aitkinianum ig. contractum 

 10. cladophorum 



