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Another Complete Set. — Still another complete 

 set of Fern Bulletin may be recorded. Mrs. Wm. F. 

 Brooks, New Britain, Conn., has completed her files.. 

 This is the thirtieth set to be reported. 



Nephrolepis Magnifica. — Another form of the 

 well known Boston fern has appeared and has been 

 named Nephrolepis Magnifica. It is a course, more 

 properly called N. exaltata forma magnifica, and ap- 

 pears to be but another of the many cut-leaved sports 

 of this fern. Additional named forms may be expected 

 until the gardening craft uses up all the superlatives. 



Herbarium of B. D. Gilbert. — One of the finest 

 of private fern herbariums was that made by the late 

 B. D. Gilbert. It was accumulated by much collect- 

 ing and exchanging and the naming of the specimens 

 had been very carefully done. Shortly after the death 

 of Mr. Gilbert, his library and herbarium were given 

 to the Utica Public Library where they are at present. 

 It is to be hoped that some provision will be made by> 

 which fern students will have access to the fern col- 

 lection. 



Ferns of the Malay Region. — In the Philippine 

 Journal of Botany for April, 1909, E. B. Copeland has 

 begun an enumeration of the ferns of the Malay- 

 Asiatic region. The first part is devoted to the spe- 

 cies not included in the Polypodiaceae and Hymeno- 

 phyllaceae. In this part is also included a natural and 

 an artificial key to the families of ferns and similar 

 keys to the genera and species are found in 

 the text. Each species is described and its 

 range given. One notes in a cursory exam- 

 ination of this part, many familiar names of genera in- 



