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  • Wednesday, November 9, 10:00 am – Introduction to Ferns

    Wednesday, November 9, 10:00 am – Introduction to Ferns

    The Garden Club of the Back Bay continues its 2016/2017 investigation into The Prehistoric Garden with a meeting and lecture on Wednesday, November 9 on Introduction to Ferns, at 10 am at The College Club of Boston, 44 Commonwealth Avenue. Beautiful and flowerless, ferns are among the most ancient plants in the world. Learn to distinguish among the most common ferns of New England through lecture and examination of fresh plant material. Don Lubin will be our featured lecturer. Don has been growing ferns since 1980, and doing field identification since 1991. He reset the fern labels at the Garden In The Woods in Framingham, and has led workshops and field trips since 1998 for the New England Wild Flower Society and others, previously with co-teacher Ray Abair of Middleboro MA. Don has found uncommon ferns and donated more than 100 specimens to herbaria, including a few state and many county records, mainly to the New England Botanical Club collection at the Asa Gray Herbarium at Harvard University. Don assisted Cheryl Lowe and Elizabeth Farnsworth in their revision of Boughton Cobb’s Field Guide to Ferns.  Club members will receive notification of the meeting. If you are not a Club member but wish to attend, please email info@bostonflora.com.

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  • Saturday, August 3, 10:00 am – 2:30 pm – Discovering Native Ferns

    Learn to identify and distinguish between the 21 or so of the most common ferns of New England.  Through lecture, slides, drawings, and microscopic examination of fresh material, become familiar with around 95% of the ferns you will see in the woods.  End this New England Wild Flower Society tour with a walk through Garden in the Woods in Framingham with Don Lubin and Ray Abair.  The class will take place Saturday, August 3, from 10 – 2:30, and the fee is $60 for NEWFS members, $72 for nonmembers.  Bring lunch and a hand lens.  Register at www.newfs.org.

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  • Saturday, July 27, 10:00 am – 2:00 pm – Pteridophytes in Vermont

    The New England Wild Flower Society and the Montshire Museum of Science in Norwich, Vermont co-sponsor a program on Saturday, July 27, from 10 – 2, on Pteridophytes in Vermont.  The Montshire Museum, which abuts the Connecticut River, has extensive grounds with a limey geology that enhances plant biodiversity.  You will visit the extensive variety of ferns, club-mosses, and horsetails, and will hear how to identify each of them.  Class will begin with indoor instruction using slides of drawings and photographs.  Wear long pants and bring bug spray, a hand lens, and lunch.  Instructors are Don Lubin and Ray Abair, identified as “fern enthusiasts.”  $46 for NEWFS members, $56 for non members.  Visit www.newfs.org for complete information.

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  • Sunday, August 15, 10:00 am – 4:30 pm – Survey of New England Ferns in Maine

    Don Lubin and Ray Abair of the New England Wild Flower Society have offered this workshop annually since 1999, but never before in Maine. They begin with a review of our fern flora, the 68 species that are native to New England. After an introductory discussion, they display photographs, drawings, and frond silhouettes. Field ID techniques are reviewed.  An outdoor field session follows with a  visit to many ferns on the Delta Institute property, located in Bowdoin, Maine, then Lycopodiella club-moss (below)  and other taxa at a nearby quarry. Geared to students with some experience and comfort in fern taxonomy. Bring a bag lunch and a hand lens.  The class will be held Sunday, August 15, from 10 – 4:30, and will cost $72 for NEWFS members, and $85 for nonmembers.  Register at www.newfs.org.

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