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We have to thank several readers for calling our attention to 

 an error in the January number, which stated that Onoclea 

 Struthiopteris does not grow within one hundred miles of New 

 York city. It has been reported at Easton and Narrowsville, Pa., 

 and along the Housatonic river at Gaylordsville, Conn. These 

 localities are all at a considerable distance from the city. If there 

 are nearer localities we shall be glad to hear of them. 



A writer in an old Garden and Forest says: " I have found 

 beautiful crested forms of two species. * * * One plant, 

 Aspidium marginale, was surrounded with numerous smaller ones, 

 all of which were crested at the end of each division of the frond." 

 I am not certain that I know this form. Is it anything unusual? 

 — Miss S. F Price. [This is doubtless one of the natural varia- 

 tions which Mr. Druery writes of in the October Bulletin. They 

 may be found occasionally in nearly all our ferns if one is on the 

 watch for them. — Ed.] 



Referring to the contribution of Mr. Charles T. Druery, of 

 London, in a recent issue regarding fern variation in Great Brit- 

 ain, I would say that perhaps not all the readers of the Bulletin 

 are aware of the great interest in fern variation taken in England. 

 As an example in "Fern Growing" by E. J. Lowe, there are given 

 names to 123 varieties of the lady fern and to 140 varieties of the 

 hart's-tongue. Among these are Scolopendrium vulgare obtusi- 

 dentatum costale and Asplenium Filix-fcemina congestum lacin- 

 iato-cristatum. These forms are mainly produced by cultivation, 

 a branch of pteridology which as yet has been given but little 

 attention in the United States. — Raynal Dodge. 



I have had another trip to the homes of some of our rare lit- 

 tle ferns on Mt. Mansfield and its vicinity, and for most of them 

 it has been, I think, a very good year. I have never seen such 

 long fronds of the Asplenium viride, or of the Pellsea atropurpurea 

 (nearly 15 inches), or the Asplenium ruta-muraria. I found mag- 

 nificent " walking ferns" which had already taken two steps and 

 were starting out for the third. But some vandals have been up 

 to our mountain ravines this summer and have been trying to 

 exterminate some of our rarest little species. If I ever find out 

 who rooted out every frond from our Aspidium fragrans cliff, that 

 fellow had better not try to join our Chapter. If he does, I prom- 

 ise him I will find some one to cast the needed two adverse bal- 

 lots.— James A. Bates, Ra?idolph, Vt. 



