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Although Asplenium pinnatifidum has been reported as root- 

 ing at the apex, it seems that it very rarely does so. Miss Sadie 

 F. Price remarks that this fern is plentiful, but local in Warren 

 county, Ky., and while she has seen hundreds of plants, she has 

 detected none so rooted. 



I have had considerable difficulty in getting good mature 

 specimens of Phegopteris Dryopteris, and have sometimes won- 

 dered whether it is because I have always found it in localities 

 where the conditions did not just suit it, or whether other collec- 

 tors have met with the same imperfections. Have others had a 

 similar experience? What I allude to, is a blanched or blotched 

 condition of the mature fronds, which seems like a disfigurement. 

 The young plants growing among tbem I generally find of a 

 beautiful clear green, or sometimes toned off to a lighter shade 

 around the margins. This fern is a great favorite of mine when 

 perfect, its stipe being an especial delight, in looks like a highly 

 tempered steel rod. — C. F. Saunders, Philadelphia. 



THE LINN^EAN FERN CHAPTER 



OF THE AGASSIZ ASSOCIATION. 



President, C. E. Waters, Baltimore, Md. 



Vice-President, Mrs. A. D. Dean, Scranton, Pa. 



Secretary, Alvah A. Eaton, Seabrook, N. H. 



Treasurer, Jas. A. Graves, Susquehanna, Pa 



Fern lovers are cordially invited to join the Chapter. Active member- 

 ship costs $1.00 annually ; Associate. 50c. This journal is sent to both classes 

 free. Application for membership should be made to either President or 

 Secretary. 



Items for this department should be sent to Mr. C. E. Waters, Johns Hop- 

 kins University, Baltimore, Md. 



— Several members who find it impossible to meet the other 

 members of the Chapter, have signified a desire for their photo- 

 graphs; and offer in return cabinet-size photographs of them- 

 selves. Tbose who care for an exchange of this kind are requested 

 to communicate with the editor of this journal.— C. 



— The pleasure to be obtained from a wider acquaintance among 

 fern students is beginning to be appreciated, and reports of sev- 

 eral interesting meetings are the result. In 1896 the President, 

 Vice-President and Treasurer of the Chapter for that year, and 

 the editor of the Fern Bulletin spent two very pleasant days 

 together near Scranton, Pa. and in July, 1897, four members met 

 at Binghamton, N. Y. This feature of fern study is capable of 



