58 AMERICAN FERN JOURNAL 
I have studied these ferns for about two years and 
this is the data that I have made from my study. 
I have a few specimens and I am willing to divide with 
members of the society if stamps are sent to cover pos- 
tage. 
Spring Hinz, Awa. 
Monastery Garpen, Noyon (before the war) 
A FERN FROM THE BaTTLE-GRouND.—I have in my 
herbarium a fine specimen of Dryopteris filix mas Schott. 
The frond was taken from a plant in the fern garden of 
Mrs. Wm. F. Brooks, New Britain, Conn. The plant 
was taken from the Monastery garden of N oyon Cathe- 
dral, Noyon, France, by Mrs. Brooks in July, 1913. It 
seems to me that battle-scarred country would be poor 
collecting ground for the fern collector to-day.—H. C. 
BigELow, New Britain, Conn. 
Recent Fern Literature 
Elizabeth Dorothy Wuist Brown has described a case 
of presumably induced apogamy among prothallia of 
