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to encourage the budding fern student and fern hunter or 

 hunters than a definite knowledge of what has been effected 

 in the way of successful hunting. We propose in this and 

 subsequent issues of the "British Fern Gazette" to give 

 lists of recognized "sports," together with any interesting 

 data relating to their discovery, such lists being compiled 

 by the discoverers themselves. The editor would therefore 

 be glad to receive such data, but would ask his corre- 

 spondents to confine their records for publication to really 

 distinct and constant forms, ignoring such as are merely 

 curious and irregular, and therefore outside the scope of 

 those eligible varieties to which, in these days of abundant 

 good material, it is desirable to confine attention. Such 

 lists may also naturally embrace improved forms raised 

 from spores, and if such can be accompanied by good 

 photographs so much the better. As far as possible the 

 parent should be specified, or both parents if cross 

 fertilization has been successfully achieved. By way of 

 a start I (in this case I am forced to use the first person 

 singular) give the following list of my own finds with 

 localities, appending thereto a few notes regarding special 

 varieties which I have raised, since these figure both 

 largely and strikingly in my collection. 



Original Finds. 

 Athyrium filix fcemina. 



A. f.f. revolvens. Strathblane. Fronds rolled nearly into 



tubes. 

 A. f.f. cristatum Kilrushense. Kilrush. Fine pendulous 



tassels ; by far the best wild cristatum found. 

 A. f.f. oreopteroides. Devon. Fronds resemble L. nion- 



tana. 

 A. f.f. Camserniense. Camsernie. Fronds resemble L. 



montana, pinnae imhvicate. 

 A. f.f. medio deficiens. Innerwell, N.B. Centre of 



frond and pinnae open. 

 A. f.f. medio deficiens. Strathblane. Centre of frond 



open. 



