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Notes and News 
In a brief note,! Elizabeth Dorothy Wuist records 
the development of apogamous prothallia from spores 
of Phegopteris polypodioides, Osmunda cinnamomea and 
O. Claytoniana, grown on various nutrient solutions. 
In all three species the apogamous embryos developed 
either from slight swellings of the prothallial tissue, 
forming eventually dome-shaped cellular masses, from 
which the young plant grew, or from cylindrical out- 
growths from the notch of the prothallium, bearing at 
their apices cellular masses, from which the embryo 
was formed. 
American Fern Society 
Word has been received of the death of Mr. Charles 
Keene Dodge, a member of the Society since 1893, 
the year of its formation. Mr. Dodge was born on a 
farm near Jackson, Mich., April 26, 1844. He at- 
tended the University of Michigan and after his gradu- 
ation in 1870, taught school for four years and then 
Studied law. In 1875 he settled in Port Huron, Mich., 
where he has lived ever since. In 1893 he gave up his 
law practice to take the position of Deputy U. 5. Cus- 
toms Inspector—largely, we are told, because this 
Position would give him more time for the pursuit of 
botany. He held it until his death. 
Saleen eeele 
' Bot. Gaz. 64: 435-437. Noy., 1917. 
Sheet contains three separate plants, without special coigraed data, but 
very probably from the three localities mentioned. The in nega 
of course, in Texas or an adjacent part of Mexico; the secon gp 
i y, ‘f x1CcO, a 
e cality in Grant w 4 ’ : the 
Mexican station for this fern: the third is in Arizona, and eagest 
nly Arizona loc ty kno a ‘Head of Rio San ro, t 
r 
Gray Herbarium. This localit in the southern part of Arizona, on 
the east side of the Catalina Mountains. 
