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Dodge. In closing the series for the present, we do not do so 

 because of having exhausted the list. There are several more 

 whose services to American fern study are important enough to 

 warrant being included, and these we purpose giving at a later 

 date. The beginners in fern study, however, are usually more 

 interested in ferns than in fern students, and in recognition of this 

 fact we shall now begin a series of portraits and biographies of 

 the curious ferns of the world. The ferns selected for this series 

 are those that are of special interest because of their shape, haunts, 

 or habits. 



NOTES. 



In the Torrey Bulletin for December, Mr. W. R. Maxon re- 

 cords the occurrence of Asplenium auritum in Sumpter County, 

 Florida. The record rests upon a single specimen collected by 

 F. L. Lewton September 4, 1894. This fern is common in the 

 West Indies, from whence the spore that gave rise to the Florida 

 specimen was doubtless carried by the wind. 



Prof. L. S. Hopkins, Troy, Ohio, recently sent us a photo- 

 graph of a clump of Pellaea atropurpurea containing 108 green 

 fronds and more than 300 stipes all so closely assembled as to ap- 

 pear like one plant. Our thanks are also due to Mr. Perley Dunn 

 Aldrich, of Rochester, N. Y., for an excellent photograph of a 

 colony of the walking fern by Prof. H. L. Fairchild. The plants 

 form a solid mat on the vertical face of a cliff which, singularly 

 enough, is of sandstone. The thrifty appearance of this colony 

 shows very clearly that the plant does not languish when away 

 from its favorite limestone. 



BOOK NEWS. 



Mr. C. F. Saunders' latest venture in a literary way is a 

 book of poems entitled "In a Poppy Garden."* To many, the 

 announcement that Mr. Saunders is a poet as well as botanist 

 will be no surprise, for his verse has been appearing for some 

 years in the better class of magazines. The present volume is 

 a collection of these poems to which have been added several 



