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his warm thanks to those members (only too few at present) 

 who have already promised him their support, and trusts 

 that the remainder will rise to the occasion and make the 

 Gazette what it should be, i.e., a real medium of communi- 

 cation for fern lovers all over the English-speaking world. 



Contributions and material for the Gazette may be sent 

 to Dr. Stansfield, 120, Oxford Road. Reading. 



The subscriptions for 1917-18 being due in advance, 

 the Hon. Secretary (pro tem.) would be much obliged 

 by a remittance of 5s. by return post to Mr. W. B. 

 Cranfield, East Lodge, Enfield Chase, Middlesex. 



OUR FRONTISPIECE. 



P. angulare divisilobum plumosum Baldwinii, 

 Jones and Fox. 



The frond from which this photograph was taken is one 

 sent to the Editor by the late Mr. E. J. Lowe, F.R.S., some 

 25 years ago, when the original (then the only existing) 

 plant was in Mr. Lowe's possession. The exceedingly fine 

 sub-division of the pinnules is well shown, but it is possible 

 that the resulting slenderness of the ultimate segments has 

 been slightly exaggerated by the drying process to which 

 the frond has been subjected. It is doubtful whether any 

 one of the seedling plants now in existence is quite equal to 

 the original in refinement, although two or three of them 

 undoubtedly approach it very nearly. Most of them are 

 in the collection of Mr. Cranfield, but Mr. T. E. Henwood 

 and the Rev. E. J. Hawkins each possess a plant and the 

 writer has also a small one — a bulbil from Mr, Henwood's 

 plant. 



