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when Nature decides to make one of our ferns in quantity, she 

 fairly over-does the matter and no one need fear to collect as 

 many as he desires for fear of exterminating it. The bracken is 

 fairly abundant over an area of more than a thousand miles wide 

 and two thousand miles long. The Dicksonia is so common in 

 the northeastern States that it is frequently cut for hay. The 

 Osmundas will not be exterminated in eastern America until the 

 last swamp is drained, and, while our forests stand, we can count 

 upon enough woodland species far ourselves, and plenty to spare 

 for our British cousins. 



NOTES 



— The first catalogue of the plants of Oklahoma was issued re- 

 cently from the Oklahoma Agricultural Experiment Station by E. 

 E. Bogue. Ten ferns and three allies are listed. 



— It has long been surmised that the fern in California, known 

 as the variety incisum of Asplenium trie ho manes, was incorrectly 

 referred to that form. In the Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical 

 Club for April, William R. Maxon his given it specific rank under 

 the name of Asplenium vespcrtinum. It is found in a few coun- 

 ties of California, and, curiously enough, the very cosmopolitan 

 A. trichomanes does not occur in the same region. 



— A list of the plants collected by Dr. C. F. Millspaugh upon 

 the cruise of the yacht Utovvana to the West Indies during the 

 winter of 1898-9 has been issued by the Field Columbian Museum. 

 Mr. G. E. Davenport, who identified the ferns, records Wood- 

 wardia radicans from Jamaica, his identification being based 

 upon sterile fronds. If no mistake has been made, this adds 

 another species to the fern flora of that island, a noteworthy event, 

 since it has been often and thoroughly explored by fern collectors. 



— An interesting freak of Dryopteris marginal is came to my 

 notice this season. The plant was removed from one place in my 

 grounds in the early Summer where it received no sun, to another 

 where the sun shone upon it for a few hours. It put up several 

 fronds which were all more or less twisted and contorted, but 

 without any fruit. After the long drought of the Summer, last- 

 ing more than six weeks, a few gentle showers gave new life to 

 the fern, for fruit appeared on all the leaves, but only on the tips. 

 The leaves were quite mature at the time, which was about the 

 middle of September. — Mrs. E. C. Anthony, Gouveneur. N. V. 



