THE JHAWAIIAN 



F0RE5TER i AGRICULTURIST 



Vol. XIT. MARCH, 1915. No. 3 



FERXS OF HAWAII. 



In the Philippine Journal of Science (Vol. IX, X'o. 5 ) appears 

 a seven-page article entitled, "Hawaiian Ferns Collected by M. 

 L'Abbe U. Faiirie," by Edwin Bingham Copeland (from the Col- 

 lege of Agriculture, University of the Philippines, Los Baiios, P. 

 I.). In his opening remarks the author states that, more than 

 three years ago, M. Abbe Faurie placed in his hands a remark- 

 ably complete collection of the ferns of Flawaii, which he made 

 during the years 1909 and 1910. In the course of the article the 

 author mentions his having consulted the Brackenridge volume 

 in the Bishop Museum, and says that Hawaiian ferns are repre- 

 sented in very considerable number in the herbarium of the Philip- 

 pine bureau of science and in his own herbarium. "These speci- 

 mens go back to collectors as old as Gaudichaud," Prof. Copeland 

 says, "and include a considerable number collected and deter- 

 mined himself." Besides the plants he had himself collected on 

 two personal visits to the mountains near Honolulu, he makes ac- 

 knowledgments for specimens to the Bishop ]\Iuseum, H. M. Cur- 

 ran (formerly of the Philippine forestry bureau). Dr. Bartsch of 

 the United States bureau of fisheries and to the Hawaiian board 

 of forestry. "In the older collections," the author says. "I have 

 fortunately had an especially large representation of species of 

 Asplcnium, sent to me by the courtesy of the Royal Botanic Gar- 

 den at Berlin." 



In the Faurie collection, it is stated, there appear three cos- 

 mopolitan ferns not hitherto collected in Hawaii. These are: 

 Afhyrium EsciilcnUim (Retz.) Copel., Kauai; Adiantiim Cunea- 

 tum. L. & F., Faurie No. 154, Kauai, Kealia ; Ptcrus LougifoUa 

 L., Faurie No. 45, Maui, Wailuku. 



In descriptions of new species, with "the other changes of 

 name which seem to be called for," the following designations 

 appear: Athyriiim Marginale (Flilleb.) Copel. comb. nov. ; Ath\- 

 riitm Mauianmn Copel. sp. nov. ; Athyniiiu Kaalaaniim Copel. sp. 

 nov.; Sadlcria Fanrici Copel. sp. nov.; Asplcnium Polyodon 



