THE 



BRITISH FERN GAZETTE. 



Vol. 2. 



SEPTEMBER, 1914. 



No. 21. 



CONTENTS 



Editorial Notes 



Odr Frontispiece , . 



The August Meeting 



Fern Experiences [continued) 



Ceterach Officinarum 



Notes on Mr. T. E. Henwood's Collection 



New Finds in Hampshire and Devon 



List of Members 



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EDITORIAL NOTES. 



As we give elsewhere the particulars of the August 

 Meeting of the Society, our notes on this occasion are 

 confined to the repeated expression of the Editor's 

 desire that our existing members should assist him 

 by getting their fern-loving friends to join the Society, 

 and so by swelling the membership enable him to 

 improve the " Gazette " by increasing its contents arid 

 its illustrations. Furthermore, he would again impress 

 upon them that they should record their experiences, 

 since it is only by such records that these become of 

 value as contributions to general knowledge available 

 for mankind at large. As we have already pointed 

 out, the "Gazette" has become recognised by botanists 

 as constituting a valuable contribution to the botanical 

 literature of the world, and particularly to that of 

 "variation," the causes of which are so assiduously 

 but hitherto vainly sought for and theorised upon. 

 Millions upon millions of plants are raised and dis- 

 tributed every year, but it is practically only in the 



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