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July, 1909, by Mr. W. Lancaster, near Backbarrow, by 

 Windermere Lake, in a coppice wood by the roadside, and. 

 has therefore no connection at all with the original find. 



This discovery is the more interesting to me that B. s. 

 concinnum constituted my first find of any value, and from 

 it 1 caught that severe attack of " fern fever " with which I 

 have been affected ever since and have, I have every reason 

 to believe, conveyed the infection to many others, even by 

 the insidious medium of books and correspondence. The 

 plant was found at the very end of a thitherto fruitless 

 fern hunt on Exmoor, in the little village of Simonsbath, 

 a final and forlorn hope inducing a search in a stone dyke 

 on its outskirts, the result being a glimpse of the extreme 

 tip of a narrow frond peeping through a bunch of normals 

 in a deep chink ; following this up, six perfect fronds were 

 discovered all springing from one centre in the heart of the 

 clump. A crow-bar gently lifted the rough stone covering 

 the roots, the whole bunch was extracted intact, and the 

 precious " find " carefully disentangled. It and its roots 

 were then wrapped up in wet moss. The following year 

 it throve and bore spores, and in another season or two 

 several hundred typical plants found their way to all 

 collections worthy the name. Our illustration represents 

 Mr. Lancaster's find reduced from 9I inches, as indication 

 of the character of the true concinnum- (page 174, Fig. 6). 



NEW FERNS. 

 From Mr. Henry Bolton, of Warton, near Carnforth, we- 

 have received fronds of a very beautiful form of Scolopen- 

 drium crisptim raised by him, which we have named S. v. c. 

 fimhyiatum Bolton. It is distinguished from all the other 

 forms which we have seen of this section by having well 

 crisped and fimbriate fronds, branching from the base into 

 usually distinct and separately stalked fronds, each of 

 which bears a well-developed terminal bunch crest. The 

 plant is of fine erect habit and very robust. A decided 

 acquisition. 



