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the war have been unfavorable to the peaceful pursuit 
of fern lore, we have maintained our number somewhere 
near the 275 mark. 
_ With twenty-five years of our development passed 
into history, we have a body of memory and tradition 
worth cherishing. And if the recently suggested plan 
of reprinting the early numbers of the Fern Bulletin 
should prove feasible it would be of a fitting celebration 
of the opening of our second quarter century. 
AUBURNDALE, Mass. 
Ferns of the District of Columbia! 
WILLIAM R. MAXON 
The flora of the District of Columbia, first brought 
to familiar notice by Ward’s classic “Guide to the 
The area adopted by Ward and by later botanists 
for the “District flora” is a circle of 15 miles radius, 
with the Capitol as its center. This includes the city 
aryland and Virginia. Roughly 
obliquely, northeast and south- 
or common boundary 
Separating the Coastal Plain and the lower foothills 
logically and physiographically are widely different 
a xtent along the Atlantic Coast, 
PEt le sg With the permission of the Secretary of the Smithsonian 
*? Bulletin 22 of the U. g. National Museum. 1881. 
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