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/NOTES. 



— An excellent article on the Hart's-tongue fern appears in the 

 University Forum of Syracuse, N. Y , in the issue of Nov. 3, 1896 

 It is from the pen of Mr. Will B. Maxon. 



— The Observer ef Portland, Conn., which has been for the past 

 seven years one of the prominent natural history magazines, sus- 

 pended recently. The general depression in business is given as 

 the cause. 



—In the Botanical Gazette for November, 1896, Prof. L. M. Un- 

 derwood reinstates a species of Botrychium which has long been 

 known as B. ternatum var. lunarioides, but which is there shown 

 to be a very distinct species possessing characteristics which clear- 

 ly separate it from its allies. The plant was first collected by Mi- 

 cheaux in South Carolina, and was described by Lamarck in 1797 

 as Osmunda biternata. Subsequent authors have called it Botry- 

 pus lunarioides and Botrychium lunarioides It is now given its 

 rightful place by Mr. Underwood as Botrychium biternatum. 



— We have left just ten sets of Vol. iv, minus the first number. 

 While they last the price will be thirty five cents a set. Prior to 

 Vol. iv the Bulletin was issued expressly for the Fern Chapter. 

 In addition to the Chapter business, it contains forty-three articles 

 on ferns, besides hundreds of other notes. One of these issues was 

 the "fern list." We have no complete sets of these early issues, 

 but will send eight different numbers, including Nos. 2 and 4 of 

 Vol. iv, for twenty cents. The supply is limited ; order early. We 

 have secured some copies of Vol. i, No. 1. Those whose files lack 

 this number may have a copy for a two-cent stamp. 



—The Bulletin of the Torreij Botanica 7 C nb for November, 1897, 

 contains an account of a new Gymnogramme from Venezuela, with 

 remarks on some other Venezuelan ferns, by |B , D. Gilbert. The 

 new species was collected last Spring by Dr. H. H. Busby, and Mr. 

 R. W. Squires, and was found climbing on tree trunks in the deep 

 forests about Santa Catalina. Mr. Gilbert names it G. heterophle- 

 bia, and remarks that its nearest relative is probably G. membra- 

 nacea of the Malay and Phillipine Islands. Although there is a 

 rather close resemblance between them the species are distinct. 

 k curious fact iu this caunection is that while the genus Gymno- 

 gramme occurs iu both the Eastern and Western hemispheres, no 

 single species is known to be common to both. 



