first permanent serial publication devoted entirely to our 

 British Ferns and their Varieties, and was contributed to 

 by the Editor and many of the members, was a very 

 practical, valuable, and up-to-date contribution to the 

 standard literature of the cult. A vote of thanks to the 

 President and officers, who were re-elected en masse, was 

 supplemented by a special one to the Editor, together with 

 a testimonial in recognition of the services rendered by 

 him to the Society, and to such Fern lovers as contributed 

 thereto. x\ large number of fronds of very beautiful Ferns, 

 some new finds and some improved raised varieties, were 

 exhibited, and displayed, in many cases, some most extra- 

 ordinary advances in the development of those varietal 

 charms, which in our Native ferns far and away excel all 

 exotics in diversity and rival the best in beauty. 



Among the material shewm by Mr. Cowan, those of 

 special interest were fronds of Osmunda regalis cvisiata, a 

 very good form found wild by Mr. R. L. Praeger in 

 Ireland; a thoroughbred and very handsome P, ang. 

 aciitilohum percristatuin, raised by Mr. Cowan ; a magni- 

 ficent wide fronded P. ang. lineare, with pinnae three inches 

 wide and very finely cut, which was named P. ang. 

 lineare latifolinni; a very finely dissected Athyrium of 

 setigerum origin, A. ff. setigevuin dissectuin; a delicate 

 divisilobe plumose P. angnlave of great promise, and a con- 

 siderable number of fine forms of L. montana and other 

 species, including a variegated seedling of L. filix mas. 

 Mr. W. B. Cranfield exhibited a number of fronds from 

 his fine collection, including some of the resuscitated Moly 

 finds. Mr. Eley exhibited a plant of L. pseudo mas. cristata 

 [1 filix mas,, as the plant was young), as found by him in 

 Little Langdale in igio ; and also an indubitable P. lonchitis, 

 found by Mr. Sargeant at the very low elevation of 300 or 

 400 feet in a wood at Whitbarrow Scar, Westmoreland, a 

 record find for this species as regards elevation, its 

 ordinary habitats being above 2,000 feet, though the Editor 

 has found it in quantity at 1,100. 



