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given. The figure here shown was drawn from a blue 

 print of one of the fronds collected by Mr. Woolson 

 which was made by Mr. Geo. E. Davenport at the time 

 the discovery w r as announced. It is quite likely that 

 the plant will be found in other regions where both the 

 parents species occur, and other collectors should be on 

 the watch for it. — W. N. C. 



"OSTRICH FERN VAR. PUBESCENS." 



It was certainly through inadvertence that the editor 

 made the above unfortunate mongrel combination in 

 the January Bulletin. It is well known, if iteration can 

 make a thing well known, that he does not care for the 

 honor of new combinations; but he must bear in mind 

 the fact that all new names must be kept track of, and 

 a cataloger is caused no end of trouble by such loose- 

 ness. What is the editor's name for the ostrich fern ? 

 If it had but one it would be a simple matter to decide. 

 Unfortunately it has had nine, as follows : 



Osmunda Struthiopteris L. (1753). 



Struthiopteris filicastrum All. (1785). 



Onoclea struthiopteris Hoffm. (1795 |, 



Onoclea nodosum Schkuhr (1809). 



Struthiopteris Germanica Willd. (1809). 



S. Pensylvanica Willd. (1810). 



^. europea Hornem. (1813). 



Matteuccia Struthiopteris Todaro (1860). 



Pterinodes Struthiopteris Kuntze (1891). 



Adherents to the Vienna Code would call this 

 Struthiopteris Germanica var. pubescens; but as the 

 generic name was first used for Blechnum, then for 

 Osmunda, and finally for this plant, adherents to the 

 principle that if a name is once a synonym it is always 



