NOTES. 



— An article on The Bracken appears in Popular Science News 

 for April. 



— The March number of Median's Monthly contains a page 

 article on the Harts- tongue fern, by Willard N. Clute. 



— Mr. Geo. E. Davenport devotes several pages of the Botanical 

 Gazette for April to the discussion of the rank to be assigned the 

 so-called variety lunarioides of Botrychium ternatum. His con- 

 clusions are summed up in the suggestion that the plant had best 

 remain where Milde placed it — as a good variety of B. ternatum. 



— Another interesting volume* designed to assist the beginner 

 in fern study has recently appeared from the press of Henry Holt 

 & Co. The book is mainly a series of octavo plates, 72 in num- 

 ber, from drawings by the author, illustrating all the species of 

 ferns to be found in the United States east of the Mississippi 

 river and north of North Carolina and Tennessee. By its use one 

 who knows nothing of botany, may identify any fern in the 

 region mentioned, by simply turning over the pages until he 

 conies to the illustration that matches his specimen. The pages 

 are also interleaved with stubs to enable the collector to preserve 

 specimens of each fern by fastening them to the blank pages. 

 Students of botany in general will find this work of much value 

 in identifying ferns. 



— A second volume of "An Illustrated Flora of the Northern 

 United States and Canada," by Dr. N. L. Britton and Hon. Ad- 

 dison Brown, has juet appeared. In all respects it is the equal 

 of the preceding one, and carries the subject from Portulacaceae 

 to Menyanthacese. Besides many smaller families this volume 

 treats of the Crowfoots, Cresses, Saxifrages, Roses, Legumes, 

 Spurges, Sumacs, Mallows, Violets, Heaths, Umbelworts and 

 Gentians. There are 640 pages and 1453 illustrations. The third 

 and last volume will probably appear before the end of the year. 

 We can supply either of the first two volumes bound in cloth for 

 $3.25, post-paid. A year's subscription to the Fern Bulletin 

 given with each volume ordered. Two volumes and a subscrip- 

 tion this journal will be sent post-paid for $6.25. Address all 

 orders to the editor. 



*The Fern Collectors' Hand-book and Herbarium, by Sadie F. Price, 

 Henry Holt & Co., New York. Price $2.25. 



