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and just lines, we beg our members to continue their sup- 

 port of the " Gazette " and to aid its Editor by contri- 

 butions to its pages and by obtaining new subscribers 

 among their fern-loving friends. 



The "Gazette" stands alone as a publication dealing 

 specially with the British Fern cult, and it is the Editor's 

 desire to see all matters of interest in that connection 

 gravitate to its pages. Specimen copies will always be 

 sent on receipt of application from possible members, 

 and the small subscription of 5s. per annum — from August 

 to August — entitling to four issues of the "Gazette" and 

 all the privileges of membership, should certainly not form 

 an obstacle to joining to any real Fern lover. 



The subscription for 1914-15 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. 



OUR FRONTISPIECE. 



ScoL. vuLG. Drummondiae superbum grandiceps. 



This very remarkable variety is peculiar in exemplifying 

 in a constant and extreme form the peculiarities of a 

 parent which, in itself, is very variable and would seem 

 indeed to be pervaded with reproductive vegetative cells 

 of, so to speak, different minds and thus, when isolated and 

 cultivated so as to form reproductive buds, produce plants 

 of great diversity. 5. v. cvispum Dvummondiae was found 

 many years ago near Falmouth by Miss Drummond, and 

 under cultivation produced robust plants consisting of 

 two distinct kinds of fronds. These fronds were all very 

 long and narrow, and with undulate or slightly frilled 

 laminae with the terminals branched out into several tips, 

 sometimes redivided and spreading out flatly to a breadth 

 of nine inches or more. In addition to this the midribs 



