NOTES. 



—The Philadelphia Public Ledger of Aug. 16th contains a note 

 and illustration of a new species of Ophioglossum, found at Wild- 

 wood, New Jersey, by members of the Torrey Botanical Club 

 upon a recent excursion. It will soon be described and named 

 by Mrs. E. G. Britton. It resembles O. vulgatum, but is quite 

 distinct. 



— At the Winter meeting of the Vermont Botanical Club, Mr. 

 C. G. Pringle delivered an address, entitled, " Reminiscences of 

 Botanical Ramblers in Vermont." It is published in the July 

 number of the Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club. There is 

 much in it to interest fern lovers, since the greater part details 

 the speaker's rambles in search of the rarer woodsias, aspleniums 

 and dryopterids of Vermont. 



— The name of the fern known to a great many botanists as 

 Cheilanthes lanuginosa, has had its full share of changes. It was 

 called Myriopteris gracilis by Fee. Then it was called Chei- 

 lanthes lanuginosa, and subsequently C. gracilis. But there is a 

 still older name, which is pointed out by Dr. John Hendley Barn- 

 hart in the Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club for August, 

 and the fern now stands as Cheilanthes Feei of Moore. 



— In the year . 1819 John Goldie, for whom Dryopteris Goldie- 

 ana was named, made an expedition on foot through Upper 

 Canada. The strictly botanical journal which he kept upon this 

 trip was lost by fire, but his diary of the journey was preserved- 

 It has recently been published in a neat little brochure by his 

 son, Mr. James Goldie, of Guelph, Ontario, Canada, to whom our 

 thanks are due for a copy. The book is prefaced with a portrait 

 of John Goldie, and also contains a plate of the fern named after 

 him, together with his original description of it. The writer's 

 observations upon the features of the country he passed through 

 make very entertaining reading. 



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 tion of the current volume we have no complete volumes of the 

 Fern Bulletin on hand. The only back numbers we have are 

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 "Fern List"), nine sets at 35 cts. a set. Vol. IV ( minus No. 1 ), 

 eleven sets at 35 cts. a set. Vol. V (the current volume), fifteen 

 volumes at 50 cts. a volume. When these are gone no more can 

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