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Preparations are already being made for a meet- 

 ANOTHBR FERN ing of fern students in New York, the last week 

 MEETING in March, 1899. A lecture by Mrs E. G. Britton 



on " Ferns and Their Haunts," will be one of the 

 principal features of the meeting, and several other well known 

 fern students will speak. Mrs. Britton's lecture will be illustrated 

 by colored lantern slides, made from photographs by the well 

 known artist, Mr. Cornelius VanBrunt Good photographs of our 

 native ferns are desired for this purpose, and correspondence upon 

 this subject may be addressed to Mrs. Britton, in care of this 

 journal. All who are interested in ferns are invited to be present. 

 A copy of the program, when completed, will be sent to those 

 who apply for it. 



NOTES* 



— In the October Fern Bulletin, the proof-reader made us refer 

 to Camptosorus Sibiricus as like C. rhizophyllus in fruiting at 

 the apex of the fronds ; the word should, of course, be rooting 



— We announce with deep regret the death of Mr. G. H. Hicks, 

 First Assistant Botanist of the U. S Department of Agriculture, 

 and editor of the Asa Gray Bulletin. Mr. Hicks died very sud- 

 denly at his home in Washington, D. C , Dec. 7. 189S. 



— A much needed revision of the ternate f- pedes of Botrychium 

 by Dr. L. M. Underwood, appears in the Ocrober Bulletin of the 

 Torrey Botanical Club. The author has had access to the mate- 

 rial in all the principal herbaria, and these studies have resulted 

 in some very interesting conclusions. Of the fifteen species of the 

 " B. temata" group, which are recognized, seven do not occur in 

 North America, and among these is the true B. ternatum. whose 

 habitat is given as Japan, China and India. Our American spe- 

 cies comprise the recently described B. biternatum of the South- 

 ern States; B. dissectum, a. common fern of the Atlantic sea- 

 board, hitherto called a variety of B. ternalum, but not to be con- 

 fused with the same so-called variety farther inland ; B. obliquum, 

 the common form of Eastern America, and its variety interme- 

 dium; B. Silaifolium, from the Pacific coast ; B. Coutleri, from 

 the region of the Yellowstone National Park ; B. occidentale, from 

 Washington and British Columbia; B. matricaricc, from New 

 York, New England and Canada, and B- decompositum, from 

 Mexico. 



