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with the beautiful Exotics forming the rest ot tde exhibits. 

 Our member and Hon. Treasurer, Mr. W. B. Cranfield, 

 as an amateur shewed about seventy superbly grown 

 specimens in five classes, which represented in every 

 case the absolute elite of the species of Polystichuni, 

 Lastvea, Athyrium and Scolopendritun^ with the result 

 that each class obtained a first class award of silver 

 cup or medal as the case might be. Space precludes a 

 full list of the exhibits, but we may specially mention 

 various specimens of the incomparable superbum plu- 

 mosums, including A. ff. plumosum Druevy and superbum 

 percristatum Druery, several plants of P. acul. pulch. 

 gracillimnm (Druery) and P. ac, p. plumosum (Green's)^ 

 together with the parent form and a number of other 

 choice Polystichums. Possibly, however, it was the 

 splendidly grown group of Scolopendriums, mainly of the 

 *' crispum " section, which attracted most attention, em- 

 bracing as it did S. v. c. rohustum (Moly), spUndens (Moly) 

 Grande (Wills), Saggitatum (Moly), Vaviegatum (Moly), and 

 plicatum (Stansfield), in company with some of the finest 

 cristate and grandiceps forms. Considering that most of 

 the plants exhibited were lifted from the open in the third 

 week in May, their development was remarkable, though 

 to the expert eye it was obvious that fine as they were, 

 they would be still finer later on. It was, indeed, too 

 early in the year to do justice to all the species and 

 P. vulgave was not even scheduled, presumably for this 

 reason. Mr. Cranfield may be congratulated on a 

 veritable triumph. C. T. D. 



NEW FERNS. 



Subsequent to the Arnside meeting I extended my tour 

 to visit some Scotch friends, and had the good fortune to 

 come across two very fine quite new varieties— one as a 

 personal wild find, the other also as a wild find, but by a 

 lady in Aberfeldy, who discovered it near the Moness Falls 



