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and transported it to her garden, in which it attracted my 

 attention as I passed. The varieties are — 



Lastrea filix mas plumosa. 

 This I found as a large clump of several crowns in a 

 considerable normal colony of the same species lining the 

 road from Closeburn to Kirkland, near Dumfries. It is a 

 robust dark green very foliose form, with somewhat wide 

 and imbricate pinnae and slightly crispy, wide and serrate 

 pinnules, the general effect being very handsome. I have 

 named it " plumosa," as all the fronds are perfectly barren, 

 and inasmuch as L. /. m. Bollandur, the only known 

 plumose form of the species, is very defective in make, 

 while this find, which is otherwise very distinct, is quite 

 perfect, I am naturally highly gratified with such a 

 thoroughbred acquisition. 



P. aculeatum revolvens. 

 In a garden in Aberfeldy I noticed a very fine 

 " revolvens " form of P. acukatiim, in which species, so 

 far as I can ascertain, no such type had hitherto been 

 found. On enquiry I learnt that the owner had found it 

 in the woods near the Moness Falls, and with some 

 persuasion I became the possessor, by way of exchange, 

 of a strong crown. The fronds weie all but tubular and 

 the pinnae strongly recurved convexly, the effects being 

 precisely the same as the best types of "revolvens" 

 in P. angulare. I thus had the pleasure of adding, though 

 indirectly, another new and unsophisticated wild find to 

 my collection, this, and the one above described, amply 

 recouping me for the lack of success at Arnside. 



P. aculeatum gracillimum Druery. 

 It may interest some of our members to know that 

 established plants of this beautiful and unique Fern, of 

 which several illustrations have appeared in the " Gazette," 

 Nos. I to lo, are now being distributed by Messrs. H. B. 

 ]May & Sons, Dyson's Lane, Edmonton. 



C. T. D. 



