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In the present paper she presents detailed evidence 
derived from a study mainly of stem anatomy, both 
internal and external, that E. variegatum var. Jesupi is 
a hybrid between EH. hyemale var. affine and E. variega- 
tum. For this conclusion she gives the following reasons: 
“(1) It has some of the characters of EH. variegatum, 
some of those of FE. hyemale, and some that are inter- 
mediate between the two. (2) A large number of its 
spores are abortive.” 
The trolley cars and billboards in Queen Elizabeth’s 
time, in place of endorsements of So-and-so’s Talecum 
Powder for the ladies, must have recommended the use 
of Whozis’s Fern Ashes. At least that is the inference 
to be derived from a passage in Ben Jonson’s “The 
Devil’s an Ass,” in which fern asi:es are named as one 
of several aids to beauty recommended by no less a 
person than one of Satan’s subordinate devils who was 
sojourning in human form for a brief period. Cannot 
some reader of the Journal follow up this reference and 
determine just what species was used? 
Members of the Fern Society, especially those who at- 
tended the Syracuse meeting last summer, will be sorry 
to learn that the tract of about 700 acres about East 
Green Lake and White Lake near Jamesville, be Gage OP 
which contains some of the best stations for the hart’s- 
tongue and Botrychium onondagense, has been sold to a 
cement company, and that its many features of scien- 
tific interest are likely soon to be obliterated. An un- 
successful attempt was made to secure this tract and 
add it to the State reservation already existing at West 
Green Lake. 
