20 AMERICAN FERN JOURNAL 
sand, and mosquitos—particularly mosquitos—which 
one is likely to encounter who goes forth in search of 
curly-grass. A social hour followed, in which the mem- 
bers present appeared to be taking full advantage of the 
opportunity to get acquainted and to compare notes 
and specimens. 
At the next morning’s session, the walls were pretty 
well covered with an exhibit of specimens. Messrs. 
Bigelow, Bissell, Weatherby, and Winslow contributed 
Dryopteris hybrids; Mr. Bissell, a very full set of forms 
of Lycopodium clavatum, L. complanatum, and related 
species; Prof. Hopkins, the North American species of 
Polystichum, including his lately described P. Ander- 
sonii, and a frond of probably the rarest North American 
fern, Cheilanthes Parishii; and Mr. Pickett, forms of 
Pellaea atropurpurea. 
this tends further to explain the presence of so many 
different strains. Mr. Winslow said that the abundance 
of some supposed hybrids had been used as an argument. 
