192 MR, T. MOORE ON THE DISCOVERY 
convenient dépót for the seeds and young plants got out in the 
forests of Pumacocha, which are three days’ journey above. The 
road is, however, so narrow and bad that there would be small 
chance of getting live plants down to Milagro in boxes or baskets, 
either on mules’ or men's backs, and I see no other way than 
putting each plant into a bamboo, where it would travel in perfect 
safety. 
In a farm called Pifiancay, adjoining Guataxi, I became ac- 
quainted with the owner, Dr. Najera, a very intelligent man, and 
formerly deputy to the Congress. Не has a cattle-farm on the 
eastern side of Azuay, at the head of the river Jubál; and ina 
day's journey down that river a forest is reached in а temperate 
clime, where a great deal of excellent bark has been collected, 
esteemed nearly equal to the Cascarilla roja. This bark is known 
as * Cascarilla acanelada," and Dr. Najera describes the tree as 
having a small shining leaf, like that of the orange. In this month 
or the next the rainy season will be over on the eastern side of 
Azuay, and if I receive my orders in time, I propose going thither 
with Dr. Najera in January, when it will be midsummer there, 
and the Cascarilla acanelada should be ripening its seeds. I fear 
there is no chance of getting young plants alive to the coast, 
across the ridge of Azuay, 15,000 feet and more in height. 
Ambato, Republic of Ecuador, 
Oct. 20, 1859. 
Notice of the Discovery of/Lastrea remota in England. By THomMas 
Моо 
‚ Esq., F.L.S., Е.Н.8. 
[Read Dec. 15th, 1859.] | 
In the course of the past summer, Мт. F. Clowes of Windermere 
sent me a frond of a fern found by him in the Westmoreland lake 
district, doubtfully labelled Lastrea Filix-mas, v. incisa ; and he 
observed that for some years it had been considered to belong to 
Lastrea spinulosa. A specimen subsequently sent, when in a more 
fully developed state, led to a comparison with the Aspidiwm 
remotum, А. Br., for a frond of which I am indebted to Professor 
Mettenius of Leipsig, and this comparison proved the German 
and Westmoreland plants to be of the same kind. 
This Aspidium remotum had been first noticed by Braun* as а 
variety of Aspidiwm rigidum, but it was subsequently regarded by 
* A. Br. iu Dóll. Rhein. Fl. 16. 
