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flOTES. 
—In a pamphlet entitled " The Flora of the Sand Hilla of Ne- 
braska," recently issued by the Department of agriculture, it is 
noted that Equi^etum Isevigatum is common in the meadonri 
aloug the Middle Loup river, and is there considered a valuable 
plant for hay. 
—Mr. W.E. Saunders notes that the Bruce Peninsula, which 
juts up between Georgian Bay and Lake Huron, produces an 
abundance of Dryopteris lonehitis. Not far away, at Owen's 
Board, Scolopendrium is found. We are promised an article on 
—Too much cannot be said in favor of that excellent little 
volume entitled "A Fern Book for Everybody," by M. C. Cooke, 
and published by Frederick Warne & Co., 3 Cooper Uuion, 4th 
Ave., N. Y. In upwards of a hundred pages the ferns of Great 
various species. Twelve colored plates and numerous illustra- 
tions in the text add much to the value of the work. There is 
no book on American ferns with exactly the same scope. The 
price is fifty cents. 
—One of the oldest and best of botanical publications isj the 
Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club, a monthly journal that 
pages, gradually increasing until in 1895 over forty -four pages 
monthly, with many full-page illustrations, were issued. The 
journal publishes a large number of the papers read before the 
to make up this very readable journal. In the monthly ''index 
Dr. Nathaniel Lord Britton, of Columbia college, New York 
