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all the privileges of membership, should certainly not form 

 an obstacle to joining to any real Fern lover. 



The subscription for 1913-14 is now due, and the 

 Hon. Secretary would be obliged by its remittance at 

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



London, W. 



The Editor. 



♦ The Hon. Secretary would take it as a kindness if such remittance 

 be made at once, as it fell due in August last. 



OUR FRONTISPIECE. 



SCOLOPENDRIUM VULG. DRUMMONDIiE SUPERBUM. 



By the kindness of our member Mr. C. B. Green we are 

 enabled to reproduce a very good photograph of this 

 remarkable Hartstongue, representing a plant he has grown 

 on from a small piece of the original given to him some 

 years ago by the writer. The variety, as will be seen, is 

 peculiar in not only having the fronds beautifully frilled 

 and fringed, but also with their midribs curiously curved 

 again and again switchback fashion, while the terminals 

 are branch crested. Added to all this the fringes possess 

 the unusual faculty of forming prothalli at their tips 

 (apospory), which reproduce more or less truly the parental 

 type. This plant, indeed, was itself so produced from the 

 original find of S. v. crispum DrnmniondicB, found wild many 

 years ago near Falmouth, and it was upon this wild plant 

 that apospory was first discovered in the species by the 

 Editor. This original plant, however, produces plain 

 fronds, without fringes as well as fringed ones, the other 

 characters however persisting, and the variety illustrated 

 occurred in a batch of small aposporously produced plants 

 given to the writer by Mr. H. Bolton of Warton. All the 

 fronds are fringed and aposporous, but it has so far inherited 



