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describes how she found a likely spot in Massachusetts for the reputed 

 hybrid Asplenium ebenoides, the soil being favourable, and the two ferns 

 Asplenium ebeneum and Gamptosorus rhizophyllus present in plenty, and 

 after a short search discovered A. ebenoides (a new record for Massa- 

 chusetts), and close by it a variant form of C. rhizophyllus verging 

 towards A. ebenoides. 



South American Ferns. — G. Hieronymus* gives the first instalment 

 of his enumeration of the ferns collected by Dr. A. Stiibel in 1S6H 

 during his geological explorations in Columbia, Ecuador, Peru, and 

 Bolivia. Though not a botanist, Stiibel made the best use of his 

 exceptional opportunities for collecting from the plains right up to the 

 eternal snows, his object being to bring back specimens typical of the 

 various zones visited by him ; and his collection was at the time by far 

 the best ever made in that region. Eight new species are described and 

 figured, six of them belonging to the genus Alsophila. P. Dusen, f in 

 his account of the flora of the Serra do Itatiaya in Brazil, gives a list of 

 26 Pteridophytes collected by him during his expedition in May-July 

 1902, on behalf of the National Museum at Rio de Janeiro. The speci- 

 mens were almost all determined by H. Christ. H. Christ % publishes a 

 list of 28 Brazilian ferns collected by J. Huber and Madame A. Goeldi 

 for the Goeldi Museum at Para, during an expedition to the frontier of 

 Peru, up the river Purus, an important tributary of the Amazons. The 

 collection shows no trace of a sub-andine character, but is of the type 

 found over the great Brazilian plain. Four new species are described. 



Japanese Ferns.§ — J. Matsumura publishes an index of Japanese 

 plants with the species arranged alphabetically under their classes. The 

 habitat, Japanese name, citations of literature, synonyms, and a biblio- 

 graphy are added. The Pteridophyta are 621 in number, including 25 

 fossil ferns. 



Norfolk Island Ferns. ||— J. H. Maiden, in his account of the flora 

 of Norfolk Island, publishes a list of 55 species of Pteridophyta with 

 critical notes on doubtful points, synonymy, etc. Six of the species 

 appear to be new records for the island. 



Rare Form of Asplenium Ruta-muraria.^ — R. Pampanini discusses 

 " lusus depauperatum Rosenstock," a monstrous form of A. Ruta-muraria 

 described by Christ in his monograph of the many variations of the 

 species.** The original plant was found near Castelruth in South Tyrol, 

 and Pampanini has obtained further specimens from the sub-alps of 

 Belluno. He describes the plant, and calls attention to its peculiarities, 

 the lanceolate form of the leaves, the linear lacinea?, the marginal sori, 

 and the longly ciliated indusium — these are but exaggerations of what 

 occurs in other forms of the species ; and despite its very distinct 

 external appearance, depauperatum must not be mistaken for some other 



* Hedwigia, xlv. (1906) pp. 215-38 (4 pis.), 

 t Arch. Mus. Nacion. Rio de Janeiro, xiii. (1903) pp. 105-9. 

 X Hedwigia, xlv. (1906) pp. 190 4. 



§ Index Plantarurn Japonicarum. Tokio : Maruzen, 1904, i. pp. 284-363, 382-96. 

 || Proc. Linn. Soc. New South Wales, xxviii. (1903-4) pp. 729-40. 

 If Nuov. Giorn. Bot. Ital., xiii. (1906) pp. 229-35 (1 pi.). 

 ** Hedwigia, xiii. (1903) p. 170. 



