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occasion, kept its delightful perfume for a long time. 

 I have found the jragrans again when it was fragrant, 

 but only once in its glory. I think the young viscid 

 fronds are the most fragrant of our vegetable life. I'd 

 like to send you two or three fronds next summer to 

 perfume a whole edition of the Fern Journal. 



Yours, 



James A. Bates. 



Note on Korean Ferns. 



The following extract is from a letter recently received 



from Korea: 



"Although I am by profession a geologist, I have a 

 keen interest in plants, especially in the lower orders. I 

 have read with interest of the work of the Arnold Ar- 

 boretum people in China and Tibet, and I feel sure that 

 many things of interest are among the flora of Korea. I 

 have a good opportunity to observe the flora while travel- 

 ing among the mountains. I have observed last year 

 twenty-three species of ferns, including a species of the 

 "walking fern," very similar in appearance to one I have 

 observed in the Ozarks of Missouri; also a species of 

 Osmunda similar to the 0. cinnamomea I have seen at 



Starved Rock, Illinois. 



"I can lay no claim to a knowledge of systematic 

 botany beyond a little work done long ago, but if I can 

 assist anyone else by collecting and sending some of the 

 plants, especially the ferns from Korea, I shall be glad 



to do so." 



D. F. HlGGINS, 



Hoi Kol, Korea. 

 c-o Seoul Mining Co. 



