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without extra cost. The advantage of having volumes bound 

 by the Neumanns is that no matter what intervals elapse between 

 the binding of different volumes, the style will remain the same. 



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This issue has been much delayed by the special articles. 

 Many articles and notes including the list of species and varieties 

 described during the past ten years have had to be held over for 

 the next issue. 



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In the forthcoming volume of the Fern Bulletin considerable 

 space will be devoted to subjects connected with the cultivation of 

 ferns. A large number of our readers own conservatories in which 

 ferns are grown, and we would be glad to have contributions from 

 them regarding their successes. Notwithstanding the space given 

 to fern culture, there will be no diminution of the scientific ar- 

 ticles. A new and important feature will consist of the fern flora 

 of each State in the Union, written by the most prominent stu- 

 dent of ferns in each State. There will also be a series of illus- 

 trated articles upon the strange and curious ferns in other lands, 

 and the portraits and biographical notices of fern students will be 

 continued. 



NOTES. 



The specimens from which Trichomancs radicans was de- 

 scribed, were collected by Swartz in Jamaica. The question then 

 rises whether the plant of the United States is the same thing. 

 Mrs. E. G. Britton thinks it is not and in the Torrey Bulletin for 

 July says our species should be called T. Boschianum. 



In Torrey for August Dr. M. A. Howe records the results 

 of some experiments in germinating the spores of Marsilia. 

 Cases are known in which spores of M. Aegyptica germinated 

 after being kept in the herbarium twelve years, while those of M. 

 quad ri folia have grown readily after being preserved eleven 

 years, some after being kept for three years in 95 per cent, pure 

 alcohol. Dr. Howe, however, has been able to extend the known 



