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introduced by a florist here and there is a beautiful vine 
growing in the place where the greenhouses were origin- 
ally.” 
It has been suggested that the spores of the fern may 
have been brought from Japan in rice. The ferns grow- 
ing in Charleston were undoubtedly introduced by a 
florist but it seems unlikely that those growing in Sum- 
merville, thirty miles away, owe their origin to the 
same source. 
A friend who has spent many years in Japan writes 
that she has found the Lygodium japonicum in a half 
dozen places around Kamahura growing generally in 
the long bamboo grass on the edge of a pine wood ona 
sandy hillside where it climbs up the grass stems or 
trails on the ground. The fern is not cultivated in 
Japan nor used ornamentally as one or two native ferns 
are.—Mary L. ANDERSON, LAMBERTVILLE, N. J. 
American Fern Society. 
Charles Noyes Forbes, Curator of Botany in the 
Bernice Pauahi Bishop of Museum Polynesian Eth- 
nology and Natural History, Honolulu, died at his home 
in Honolulu on August 10, 1920. 
Mr. Forbes was born at Boylston, Massachusetts, 
September 24, 1883. Following his elementary training 
he attended the Fay school, Southboro, Massachusetts, 
(1895-1897) and the High School at National City, 
California. In 1908 he was graduated from the Uni- 
versity of California with the degree of Bachelor of 
Science. Soon after, Mr. Forbes came to the Bishop 
Museum as Assistant in Botany and was later appointed 
Curator of Botany. 
During his twelve years on the staff of the Museum, 
Mr. Forbes developed a small miscellaneous collection 
