THE 



BRITISH FERN GAZETTE. 



Vol. 2. 



DECEMBER, 1914. 



No. 22. 



CONTENTS. 



Editorial Notes 



Our Frontispiece (Scol. v. Drummondiae superbum grandiceps) 



Notes on Mr. T. E. Kenwood's Collection (continued) 



A Plumose Oak Fern : P. dryopteris plumosum 



Wild Fern "Sports" 



On Variation Generally.. 



Deferred Variation 



Fern Hunting: Wild Finds and Seedlings 



Fern Fronds for Naming 



A Visit to Acton .. 



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EDITORIAL NOTES. 



As it is utterly impossible in these troublous times to 

 avoid some reference to war, we, speaking personally, 

 would point out that there is no better counterpoise to the 

 mental trouble which in one way or the other is inevi- 

 tably involved than the pursuit of a natural hobby in the 

 intervals between the too often depressing study of the 

 papers and the duties which the maintenance of existence 

 under changed and unfamiliar conditions and needs brings 

 in its train. Unfortunately, too, in our case, these con- 

 ditions are coincident with the practical closure of the 

 growing and most interesting season for Ferns, but, never- 

 theless, there still remains, as with all hobbies connected 

 with Nature Study, an inexhaustible supply of material in 

 collections of living plants with the study of which we can 

 while away the hours of enforced leisure. To those who 

 pursue the hobby intelligently, and who have accumulated 

 either by hunting, raising, or even by purchase or ex- 

 change, a collection worth having, there is no better time 



