THE *«.#?/ 



BRITISH FERN GAZETTE. 



Vol. 3. DECEMBER, 1917. No. 34. 



CONTENTS. pACE 



Editorial Notes 225 



Our Frontispiece (P. angularc divisilobum plumosum 



Baldwinii) 226 



The Jones-Fox (and other) Angulare Plumose-Divisi- 



lobes (F.W.S.) 227 



Notes on Athyrium F-f. Kalothrix (Mr. H. Stansfield) ... 232 



British Ferns (Rev. E. H. Hawkins) 235 



The Production of Apospory by Environment in A. F-f. 

 unco-glomeratum (reprinted from the Linnean 



Society's Journal, 1899) 237 



Winter Growth (Chas, T. Druery) 244 



Rockwork on Slopes (Chas. T. Druery) 246 



EDITORIAL NOTES. 



In taking up the duties of conducting the Gazette the 

 Editor begs to say that he has accepted the responsibility 

 (for the time being) with the greatest diffidence and with 

 considerable reluctance. The position is one which he has 

 not sought, but would much prefer to avoid, and will be 

 only too glad to relinquish upon the smallest hint. In 

 addition to the severe handicap necessarily involved in the 

 succession to an experienced literary man like the late 

 Mr. Druery, the new Editor is weighted by the duties of a 

 busy professional life which leave him little leisure for other 

 work, even in peace time, and still less in the confusion and 

 stress caused by the world war. He hopes, therefore, that 

 the readers of the Gazette will grant him their kind 

 indulgence as a beginner at the work of editorship and that 

 the members will afford him all the assistance in their power 

 by literary, photographic, and other contributions, without 

 which the work cannot long be carried on. He expresses 



