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Botanical Gazette. 



Vol. VII. FEBRUARY, 1882. No. 2. 



Editorial.— Mr. J. G. Lemmon has published a smaH pamph- 

 let entitled "Ferns of the Pacific Coast, including Arizona." A full 

 conspectus of the tribes and genera is given, and also a classified list 

 of the species, giving the principal points of distinction and places of 

 growth. The announcement is also made that Mrs. Lemmon is about 

 to publish a "Manual of Pacific Ferns." The price of the pamphlet 

 is 35 cts., or $3.50 per dozen. 



Mr. J. Saunders has given in Hardwicke 's Science- Gossip the results 

 of his study of Gray's Manual of Botany with reference to the colors 

 of fruits of the northern United States. He includes both colored 

 fruits and seeds, and finds that there is a great preponderance of red 

 and black, the former being about 45 per cent., the latter about ^ 

 per cent., while yellow, blue and white occur only in very limited 

 numbers. 



S. E. Cassino is just about to publish a work on North Ameri- 

 can Lichens by our highest authority, Prof. Edward Tuckerman. It 

 will appear in volumes and be sold at a very low figure. As a very 

 small edition is to be printed and the work is not to be stereotyped 

 orders should be sent in early. The price for Vol. I has been fixed 

 at $3.50, though orders received before March 1st will be filled at 10 

 per cent, discount. The first volume will be 8vo. and will contain 

 nearly 300 pages, comprising the Parmeliacei, Oadoniei and Cceno- 

 goniei. 



Jamaica must be a paradise for the fern collector, over 450 spe- 

 cies being enumerated as belonging to its flora. 



Dr. Engelmann, in the January Torrey Bulletin, notes the oc- 

 curence of Sagittaria nutans, Mx., in the Charles River, Mass., ob- 

 served by Mr. C. E. Faxon, also observed in the Noponset and Ip 

 swich Rivers by Mr John Robinson It never perfects fruit and 

 hence seems not to be at home in these northern waters. In Gray's 

 Manual these northern forms were included in 6". graminea. S. pusil- 

 la. Pursh, must now be considered but a subterrestrial form of S. na- 

 tana . 



Mr. Darwin's methods of work are peculiarly his own and their 

 results have made astonishing additions to scientific knowledge, but 

 because Mr. Darwin's methods have yielded such resuhs to him it is 

 no indication that any one using the same methods will become a 

 successful investigator. It needs the man as well as the methods, and 



