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— In the death of Mr. Thomas A. Williams, on December 23, 

 1900, the Asa Gray Bulletin lost its senior editor and the journal 

 has now been merged with the Plant World. 



— Mrs. E. G. Britton and Miss Alexandrina Taylor have con- 

 tributed an exhaustive study of the life history of Schizcea pusilla 

 to the January Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club. 



— In "Notes on the Genus Lycopodium ' : in the January num- 

 ber of Torreya Prof. F. E. Lloyd writes that the denticulation of 

 the leaves is of small diagnostic value in the group of which L. 

 alopecuroides is the type. 



— Under the title of "The Home of Botrychium pumicola," 

 Mr. Frederick V. Coville gives a full account of this new species 

 in the Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club for February. Three 

 good figures of the fern are given. 



— In the January Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club Frof. 

 Underwood describes a new species of Adiantum from Mexico as 

 A. modest um. It is much like ^4. Capillus-Veneris, differing in the 

 smaller, rounded and less incised pinnules, narrower sori and 

 lighter colored rachids. 



— In an article on " The Ferns of Mt. Toby" in the March 

 Rhodora, M. L. Owen notes that Botrychium simplex shares with 

 Ophioglossum vulgatum the habit of disappearing for a season. 

 Eight hundred specimens of the Botrychium were found one year 

 in a space ten rods long and seven wide. 



— Last summer Mr. J. B. Flett made a collecting trip to Alaska 

 and returned with 23 species of fernworts. These are listed by 

 Mr. W. R. Maxon in the Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Clul> 

 for December. A form of Aspidium fragrans is described as new 

 under the name of DryopteHs aquilionaris. 



— In reprinting Mr. C. T. Druery's list of "Abnormal British 

 Ferns" from Indian Gardening in our January number, we 

 changed the generic names Lastrea and Nephrodium to Dryopteris 

 in conforming to American ideas of nomenclature. The reprint- 

 ing of our Americanized list by British papers, however, makes it 

 appear as if Mr. Druery had changed his mind regarding these 

 names. This he emphatically disclaims, and we hope this ex- 

 planation may set matters right. 



— By an inadvertence the January Fern Bulletin made the 

 statement that Lycopodium annotinum (instead of L. inundatum) 

 was found on southern Staten Island in company with L. alopeeu- 



