THE FERN BULLETIN 



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possible for me to separate them, when there is, in my 

 way of thinking but one kind. I have grown them for 

 many years, so have had a good chance to observe their 

 peculiarities. 



The fern that varies the most with cultivation (and 

 in its wild state too) is Pcllaca omithopus, I think if it 

 could be studied more, it would be found, there is more 

 than one kind, but I have not the chance to transplant 

 both large and small plants and study them as other 

 work prevents. I intend to write a little to the Fern 

 Journal, and let them know there are some places in 

 in California where you can get more kinds of ferns 

 than the article in the last one would indicate. I have 

 found forked ferns of each kind I collect. Of the 

 ferns that grow here, the Ophioglossum Calif omicum 

 is the rarest, and the bronze-powdered Gymno gramme 

 triangularis is next, as you only find a root once in a 

 while growing among the other ferns, and I have 

 found them alone but there is no definite station for 

 them. Notholacna cretacca also is not abundant, and I 

 do not press many Dryoptcris rigid arguta. The other 

 kinds I collect when I have a chance to visit the places 

 where they grow. Some years I do not go to all the 

 stations and other years have been to some of them 

 twice. I had about 40 specimen-pages of the kinds not 

 found in California when I joined the "Fern Chap- 

 ter." The most of my collection of over 300 kind's of 

 native forms. I have obtained since, by exchange with 

 the members of the American Fern Society. I have 

 one disadvantage : since I have all but the newly dis- 

 covered, or rare ones of the United States in my col- 

 lection, I do not care for duplicates of the more com- 

 mon kinds, as I am trying to get the very finest col- 

 lection of ferns I can for their beauty, and cannot 



