THE FERN BULLETIN 



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the plant and asked permission to describe it in the 

 Fern Bulletin but illness and finally death prevented." 

 Apparently the only difference between the Vermont 

 and Pennsylvania plants is the cristate apex, but as 

 forking tips are to be expected in any species this 

 feature is not extraordinary. 



Mr. Graves usually spoke of his specimen as the 

 variety truncatum. This is the name it bears in some 

 'herbaria and is the one it undoubtedly would have 

 borne in literature had he lived to describe it. Those 

 who were fortunate enough to have known Mr. Graves 

 personally, however, will be pleased to see his name 



associated with one of the forms of that division of 

 the plant world which he studied so long and so as- 

 siduously. It need hardly be said for the readers of 

 this magazine that Mr. Graves was one of the found- 

 ers of the Linnaean Fern Chapter the name by which 

 the American Fern Society was originally known, was 

 elected the first treasurer and held that office through 

 half the lifetime of the society, was one time president 

 of the same society and for a long time one of the most 

 resourceful of its Advisory Council members. 



The drawing herewith was made from the middle 

 pinnae of a frond kindly supplied by Mr. Alfred 



