THE 



BRITISH FERN GAZETTE. 



Vol. 2. 



MARCH, 1913. 



No. 15. 



CONTENTS. 



Editorial Note 



Odr Frontispiece (A. f.f. superbum pedigree) 



Alpines and Ferns in Conjunction .. 



Fern Hunting in Winter 



Nature versus Culture in Fern Variation (Lecture) 



Fern Variation 



Induced Apospory in Ferns 



British Fern Nomenclature 



Variation, Some Observations on, by Rev. Principal 



KiNGSMiLL Moore, D.D. 

 New Members 



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EDITORIAL NOTE. 



As we are now entering upon the period when our 

 British Ferns are beginning literally " to stir their stumps " 

 at the commencement of a new seasonal campaign, we 

 may hope for the resumption of the interest which has 

 naturally been more or less dormant during the ''dead" 

 season. We also hope that it may be attended by the 

 acquisition of new forms, both by search for the wild and 

 by spore selection, which latter, now that we have such a 

 wealth of choice forms to sow from, should be all the more 

 successful (vide Mr. C. B. Green's " Lament and Moral " 

 in this issue). In this particular connection the Editor 

 cannot help expressing his regret that, with a membership 

 of over 150, and with the stimulus which he endeavours to 

 impart through the Gazette, so little of the correspondence 

 he receives points to activity in spore sowing on proper 

 selective lines and consequent resu'ts. Contributions to 

 the Gazette itself are also far too rare, though its columns 

 are open to all really practical matter, apart from the 

 information which the Editor is always ready to impart 



