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When these are full size, about as large as herring scales, 

 tepid water overhead may help fertilization. Each sowing 

 should be numbered and registered in a book kept for that 

 purpose. Cross fertilization may possibly be effected by 

 sowing two varieties together on the off-chance, but self- 

 fertilization is the rule. 



PERSONAL FINDS 



BY 



Mr. G. WHITWELL, 



Secretary of the British Pteridological Society. 



Mr. George Whitwell, for many years Secretary to our 

 Society, has been an assiduous Fern hunter in the Lake 

 District for about forty years, and has very kindly provided 

 the following list of his discoveries, with, in many cases, 

 indications of aspect, soil, and other data of interest both to 

 the fern hunter and cultivator. 



Lastrea Montana. 



Name. Where Found. Aspect. 



angustifrons Patter dale .- North 



Remarks. — Fronds erect and very narrow, gravelly soil, low 

 down on the hill side, whinstone rock, not many normals ; 

 there would be about forty or fifty crowns altogether. 



angustata Langdale ... ... N.E. 



Remarks. — Very narrow and erect, gravelly soil, a good 

 height up on the hill side, whinstone rock, two crowns-, 

 plenty of normals. 



breviloba Kentmere N.E. 



Remarks. — Pinnules evenly reduced, strong loam, whinstone 

 rock, not many plants, a good many normals. 



cristata Frostrow N.E. 



Remarks. — Pinnae and fronds crested, strong loam, whinstone 

 rock, low down on the hill side ; there would be over loo 

 plants scattered about amongst normals, species not so 

 plentiful. 



curvata Garsdale N.E. 



Remarks. — Pinnae curved downwards, dry stony hillside, 

 whinstone rock. When I found my first plants in 1883 

 there were a good many plants amongst normals ; species 

 fairly plentiful. I have also found other two good forms, 

 one which I consider the best of the type. Also found 



in Eskdale and Rydale. 



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