the rest, it will be what our contributors make it. In 

 this issue we send bills for a year in advance with arrears, 

 if any, added. We trust that we may have a prompt 

 reply from all. But why bother each year with sending 

 75 cents? Why not send $1.25 for two years or $2.00 for 

 three years, and save the discount. These rates, how- 

 ever, apply to payment in advance and not to subscrip- 

 tions in arrears. 



At this writing the editor expects to attend the meet- 

 ing of fern students in New Orleans during the Holidays 

 and will present a paper on the tropical ferns likely to 

 be found in the Southern States, with observations on 

 those that have already been found there. New Orleans 

 is an ideal city for a winter meeting, and it is hoped that 

 a large number of the readers of this magazine will be 

 able to attend. If the weather is favorable trips will be 

 made to the haunts of Azolla Carolinicma, Marsilia un- 

 cinata, Selagiiiclla Liidoviciana, Equisetum vobustum, 

 Ptcris longifolia, Ccratoptcris thalictroides, Nephrodium 

 patois and various other desirable species of fernworts. 



Last summer, the editor had the pleasure of a 

 trip to Mount Tom. in Massachusetts, from which a 

 magnificent view was had of a vast sweep of picturesque 

 country, with Wachusett, Monadnock, and Greylock 

 peeping up on the distant horizon, and Mt Holyoke and 

 the long ridge of trap-rock of which it is a peak, in the 

 middle distance. But turning from these things, he was 

 possibly as much interested in two little fernworts, that, 

 in spite of the crowds of visitors to this elevated region, 

 live and flourish everywhere. Even at the Summit House 

 where the walk divides to go round a rocky point, the 

 two were growing vigorously within six inches of the 

 boards. These species were the rusty woodsia and the 

 rock selaginella, both rare so far as the experience of 

 fern collectors in general goes, but common enough in 



