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ing plants of his vicinity and has discovered several new species, 

 one of which, a grass, has been named for him. He has studied 

 the mosses to some extent, but the fernworts, especially the 

 genera Isoctcs and Bquisetum, have claimed the greatest share of 

 his attention. He has described numerous new species and 

 varieties in these genera as well as in the ferns. He has thorough- 

 ly worked up most of the species of Isoetcs in the world and has 

 spore mounts of a majority of them. His valuable papers on the 

 genus Bquisetum in North America are well known to readers of 

 this magazine. 



Mr. Eaton was for two years Secretary of the Fern Chapter 

 and he has always been an energetic worker for its success. To his 

 initiative is also due the formation of the Chapter Herbarium. 

 Mr. Eaton is unmarried and resides at Seabrook, N. H. — IV. N. C. 



MINOR INACCURACIES. 



It is always safe to be correct even in small details. The 

 January Bulletin contains several minor errors which are mis- 

 leading, and as four of them, at least, are connected with my 

 own work, I may be pardoned for calling attention to them : 



1. Not seeing the proof of my Sclaginclla paper several 

 errors crept in, two of which should be corrected. On page 9 of 

 the Synopsis under the paragraph commencing "Strobiles erect" 

 the clause "Terminal leaf-bristles, etc.," should have formed a sep- 

 arate paragraph co-ordinate with the other one commencing with 

 the same words. At the middle of page 11 the ki S. Wrightii" 

 should have been S. Wightii, there being already an S. Wrightii 

 from our own country, and the East Indian plant was named for 

 Mr. Wight, who collected in India. 



2. In Dr. Waters' article (page 2), I am cited as ''assuming 

 that a hybrid is necessarily sterile." As I never held such a view 

 the assumption did not belong to me and must have originated 

 with the writer. It might be well to add in passing that the 

 status of Asplenium ebenoides as a species is not involved in the 

 question. No one, I think, has raised that question, and it is one 

 independent of the origin of the species, so cannot be affected by 

 the question as to whether it is or is not a hybrid. On the latter 



