1886. ] BOTANICAL GAZETTE. 43 
pen of Dr. C. 8. Sargent, published in the New York Sun of January third and 
reprinted by the author in pamphlet form, makes it necessary for us to say, in 
oo justice to the Gazerrr, that our article was sent to the pet on Decem- 
ber 23 and the proof of it corrected and returned before we had seen Dr. Sar- 
pny paper. The reader of the two will notice that the ducal sketch is 
much fuller in its account of Gray’s early life, while Dr. Sargent’s contains a 
much more extended history of his botanical ]abors. Having both had access 
to the same source for our facts the two papers ae ng closely in some 
points while at the same time they supplement each o 
DITORS OF THE GAZETTE intend to make their June number one for 
ists will furnish notes pertaining to their own departments, but this early no- 
tice is given, with the Pee is that all collectors in every department and all 
herbarium workers send us notes concerning the collection, transportation, 
preservation, and final soci ole of plants. The cohneraten of botanists 
will make this number a valuable collector’s hand-boo 
Tue portrait of Dr. Gray, which we csseailt in our last issue, was 
made from a photograph taken in 1880. It was selected by Mrs. Gray agg 
the numerous ones in her possession as being the best likeness of the Docto 
OPEN LETTERS. 
Some Variations, 
In Acad 1885, I collected, in Somerset county, Maine, several specimens of 
Botrychium Matri icariefolium, in which the fertile segments were more com- 
lf s i 
pound than in ms, and the sterile segments were smaller, especi- 
ally narrower, and had sporangia ar urious looking speci- 
mens when pared with the ordinary forms beside which they g 
st, at Wen eG oe ted a handful of ns Hd 
— J. FRANKLIN CoLLINs. 
Botany at Harvard. 
With your permission I should like to ate the eve goad = e on 
page 397 of the Gazerre for December, as I understand that s readers 
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given in a Beas laboratory at the Agassiz Museum, and the 
zoological al portion i is Tae by Prof. Faxon, while it is my duty to ‘euch the 
