Q6 SUiLMAKY OF QUERENT EESEARCHES RELATING TO 



E. Brainerd * records some new stations for the hybrid Dryopteris 

 Goldiana x num/iiiaUs in Vermont. 



E. J. Winslow describes f and figures a form of Asplenium acrosti- 

 choides which occurs in moist woods in Northern Vermont. 



G. L. Mox'ey % pubHshes a note on ferns found near Los Angeles, 

 in Southern Cahfornia. 



S. C. Edwards § describes the habit of growth of Polypodium poly- 

 podioides in the woods and fields around Whiteville, in North Carolina. 



R. C. Benedict |1 records the occurrence of Botrychium Jenmani in 

 Cuba, and discusses several paired species of Botrychium which, though 

 more or less alike in form, differ in the time of fruiting. 



L. S. Hopkins ^ gives a description and figure of a new variety of 

 Osmunda cinnamomea. He also enumerates ** the ferns found in the 

 vicinity of Ohio Pyle, Pennsylvania. 



G. L. Moxley ft publishes some Southern California fern notes. 



F. H. Knowlton %% writes about the study of fossil ferns, its value 

 in the evolutionary history of the group, the data which it supplies as to 

 ecological conditions, and the invaluable series of stratigraphic marks 

 which it yields for the use of geology. 



G. F. Cleveland §§ writes some general notes on the fern-flora of 

 Panama and on the physical geography of the district near Porto Bello. 



H. G. Ruggllll gives an obituary account of Cyrus Guernsey Pringle 

 (born 1838, died 1911), a notable collector in Mexico and the United 

 States. 



E. J. Winslow 1| H writes an account of the field meeting of the 

 American Fern Society, and of the visit paid to a fern-garden where a 

 remarkable plant of Osmunda was under cultivation. 



Eudryopteris in Tropical America.*** — C. Christensen gives an 

 account of the Tropical American species of Eudryoiiieris, that sub- 

 genus of Dryopteris which contains D.filix mas and its allies, and which 

 is rather poorly represented in the tropics. In Tropical America it is 

 represented by but ten species, nine of which are found in Mexico, and 

 a few farther south. The two new species, D. Saffordii and D. Maxoni, 

 were found in Peru and Mexico respectively. 



Transvaal Ferne.ttt — P- t'. Benedict pubhshes a note on the ferns 

 of the Transvaal, with reference to a paper published by J. Burtt-Davy 

 and V. G. Crawley under the title of " The families, genera, and species 



* American Fern Journ., i. (1911) pp. 78-9. 

 t American Fern Jom-n., i. (1911) pp. 79-82 (figs.). 

 X American Fern Journ., i. (1911) p. 82. 

 § American Fern Journ., i. (1911) p. 88. 

 II American Fern Journ., i. (1911) pp. 98, 99. 

 ^ American Fern Journ., i. (1911) pp. 100-1. 

 ♦* American Fern Journ., i. (1911) pp. 101-3. 

 tt American Fern Journ., i. (1911) p. 104. 

 + t American Fern Journ., i. (1911) pp. 105-10. 

 §§ American Fern Journ., i. (1911) pp. 111-13. 

 II li American Fern Journ., i. (1911) pp. 114-15. 

 ^4 American Fern Journ., i. (1911) pp. 115-17. 

 *** American Fern Journ., i. (1911) pp. 93-97. 

 ttt American Fern Journ., i. (1911) pp. M-45. 



