200 THROUGH GLADE AND MEAD, 
Campanula aparinoides, Pursh Marsh Bell- 
flower. 
Anemone Virginiana, L. Anemone. 
Sericocarpus conyzoides, Nees White-topped 
Aster. 
Carex monile, Tuckerm. Sedge. 
July rr. Steironema ciliatum, Raf. Loosestrife. 
Lilium Canadense, L. Wild Yellow Lily. 
Habenaria virescens, Spreng. Habenaria. 
350 Brachyelytrum aristatum, Beauv. Beard-Grass. 
Flowering plants have, hitherto, claimed most of 
our attention, but we should not forget that the flower- 
less plants fill a great space in the economy of Nature 
and repay study equally well. Standing among the 
highest of the Cryptogams, ferns everywhere attract us 
by their number, variety and beauty. The literature 
devoted to ferns is very extensive, and some of it very 
expensive. Perhaps the best single book is Hooker and 
Baker’s ‘‘Synopsis Filicum,” which describes seventy- 
five genera and more than 2,200 species. Since this 
work was first published in 1868 several hundred new 
species have been discovered and described. My copy 
of it I value the more highly because it belonged to Dr. 
Hance, British consul at Amoy, who has enriched it 
with manuscript notes, being himself an enthusiastic 
botanist. D. C. Eaton’s “Ferns of North America,” 
with its numerous finely colored plates is the best work 
on our local ferns. 
