192 MR. T. MOOllE ON THE DISCOVEEY 



convenient depot for the seeds and yonng plants got out in the 

 forests of Pumacocha, which are three days' journey above. Tlie 

 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 Pinancay, adjoining Guataxi, I became ac- 

 quainted with the owner, Dr. Najera, a very intelligent man, and 

 formerly deputy to the Congress. He has a cattle-farm on the 

 eastern side of Azuay, at the head of the river Jubal ; and in a 

 day's journey down that river a forest is reached in a 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. N ajera describes the tree as 

 having a small shining leaf, like that of the orange. In this month 

 or the next the rainy season wiU 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 Thomas 

 Moore, Esq., E.L.S., E.H.S. 



[Read Dec. 15th, 1859.] 



In the course of the past summer, Mr. E. 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 Aspidium 

 remotvm, A. 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 remotmn had been first noticed by Braun * as a 

 variety of Asj^idium rigidwn, but it was subsequently regarded by 



* A. Br. in DoU. Rliein. FL, 16. 



