THE FERN BULLETIN 



tion of a fern is given on one page and the description 

 of it on the page facing it. The lower part of each 

 descriptive page is reserved for notes. To the re- 

 viewer the great defect in the descriptive part is the 

 fact that it is rather too brief and too general to be of 

 much use, to a beginner but the illustrations will be 

 an added help. These latter, it may be said in pass- 

 ing, are exceedingly like the illustrations in one of the 

 popular fern books already on the market, and the 

 illustrated "key" is a very good copy of a similar key 

 in another book. We note that by a curious trans- 

 position of the plates, none of the flowering fern^ 

 are found in the section devoted to the flowering fern 

 family. This will doubtless be righted in the next 

 impression. The book is published by Moffat, Yard 

 & Co., New York, at $1.00 net. If one can af- 

 ford but a dollar for a fern book, this is certainly the 

 book to get. It is small enough to go into the pocket 

 and in most cases will doubtless answer the require- 

 ments. When in doubt more authentic works can be 

 consulted. 



