with a portion of a frond of the parent plant. The said 

 parent Poiystichum aculcatum pulcliervimum was found 

 nearly forty years ago by a farm labourer in a Dorsetshire 

 hedge, and since that time has only been propagated by 



POLYSTICHUM ACULEATUM PULCH EKRIMU M. 



offsets owing to its infertility as regards spores. A few 

 years back, however, a few spores were found, and Mr. 

 C. B. Green, of Acton, and the Editor made a joint sowing, 

 with the remarkable result that about twenty plants of 

 altogether different types resulted amid a number of the 



