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Notes on American Ferns. — W. N. Clute* publishes a check list of 

 North American Fern-worts, which contains a chronological account of 

 previous lists, a table of families and tribes, and the first part of a 

 systematic enumeration, with notes on distribution. B. D. Gilbert t 

 supplies notes of observations on four species of Georgia ferns, and on 

 other North American species. G. E. Nichols J records a new habitat 

 for Schizcea pusilla, at Cape Breton, the northernmost yet known. 

 A. Nelson § describes Asphnium Andrewsii, a new species from Colorado. 

 E. Rosenstock || gives diagnoses and photographic representations of new 

 species and hybrids from South Brazil. 



Bayer, A. — Zur Morphologie der Rhizome von Pteris aquilina. (On the morpho- 

 logy of the rhizome of P. aquilina.) SB. k. Bohm. Ges. Wiss. Prag, 



x. (1904) 8 pp. 



Christ, H. — Primitiae Florae Costaricensis. Filices. (First-fruits of the Flora 

 of Costa Rica. Ferris.) 



[Descriptions of novel forms and notable species collected by Werckle in 

 the Navarro Valley, which is exceedingly rich in ferns, e.g. Gleichenia, 

 Cyathea, Aspidium, Polybotrya.] Bull. Herb. Boissier, vi. (1906) 



pp. 45-58, 159-172. 

 Christensen, C. — Index Filicum. (Index of Ferns.) 



[Gleichenia to Leptochilus.] Copenhagen : Hagerup, Dec. 1905, 



fasc. vi. pp. 321-84. 



Grand 'Etjry. — Sur les graines de Sphenopteris, snr l'attribntion des Codono- 

 spermum, et snr 1' extreme variete des "graines de fougeres." (On the seeds of 

 Sphenopteris, the position of the Codonosperma, and the extreme variation of 

 the seed-bodies of ferns.) Comptes Rendus, cxli. (1905) pp. 812-15. 



Kkos, R. — Anatomische Untersuchungen iiber die Blattspreite der einheimischen 

 Fame. (Anatomical studies of the leaf-blade of the indigenous ferns.) 



Erlangen, 1904, 59 pp. 



Kops, VanEeder & Vuyck. — Flora Batava. Afbeelding en Beschrijving van 

 Nederlandsche Gewassen. (Dutch Flora. Figures and descriptions of the 

 plants of the Netherlands.) 



[A Lycopodium and 4 species of Isoetes are figured.] 



Harlem : Loosjes, 1905, parts 349-52, 20 plates. 



Maiden, J. H. — Selaginella lepidophylla. 



[An American species, which is artificially scented with oil of cinnamon 

 and sold in Australia as the " Rose of Jericho."] 



Abstr. Proc. R. Soc. N. S. W., Oct. 4, 1905, p. iii. 



Maiden, J. H., & E. Betche. — Notes from the Botanic Garden, Sydney. 



[Contains notes on and a new description of Marsilia angustifolia, a North 

 Australian species now recorded for New South Wales. The leaflets are 

 said to be distinctly pinnately arranged.] 



Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., xxx. (1905) pp. 354-75. 



Raciborski, M. — Orodzaju paproci Allantodia Wall. (On the Fern-genus Allan- 

 todia Wall.) Krakow. Rozprawy Akad. Umiej., v. (1905) pp. 166-72. 



Schoute, J. C. — Notiz iiber die Verastelnng der Banmfarne. (Notes on the 

 branching of tree-ferns.) Ann. Jard. Bot. Buitenzorg, 



ser. ii. 5 (1905) pp. 88-91 (1 pi.). 

 Woolson, G. A. — A precocious Cystopteris. 



[An instance of C. bulbifera on which the bulblets developed into plants 

 without being detached from the frond.] 



Fern Bulletin, xiii. (1905) pp. 99, 100 (1 pi.). 



* Fern Bulletin, xiii. (1905) pp. 109-20. 



t Tom. cit., pp. 100-4, 108-9. t Tom. cit., pp. 97-8. 



§ Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, xvii. (1904) pp. 173-80. 

 | Festschr. Albert von Bamberg, Gotha, 1905, pp. 56-69. 



