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It is certainly somewhat remarkable that so many ferns 

 and so many bottles should be found in such close associa- 

 tion. There seems, however, to be several isolated cases 

 on record lately, for last December Mr. J. Fraser, F.L.S., 

 of Kew, showed me a bottle containing the Bladder Fern 

 {Cystoptevis fvagilis), which had been found in a garden. 



Although this fern is deciduous and dies down early, it 

 was still luU-fronded when I saw it. 



Again, Mr. Beach-Thomas, the well-known naturalist, 

 recorded a similar occurrence in the Daily Mail last March, 

 and our Editor noted a similar case in a garden in far- 

 away Galicia (Austria). 



C. B. Green. 



NEW FERNS. 



From Mr. J. E. Walpole of Whitiey, Chester, we have 

 received fronds of a very heavily crested P. ang. capitatiim 

 found by him at Skierk in Queen's County, Ireland, by the 

 road side. Sandstone district, but roads mended with lime- 

 stone, the scrapings of which are thrown on the banks 

 in winter. As with other capitaUims of this species, the 

 pinnae are only minutely crested. 



By the Rev. Principal Kingsmill Moore, a variety of 

 Athyrium was found, on August 4th in Co. Donegal, 

 with slender fronds and pinnae and irregular pinnules, very 

 distinct and thorough in character, but only valuable as a 

 "souvenir" in these days. He also sends a frond of 

 a Hartstongue, a recent find of his in Co. Cork, each frond 

 branching into several distinctly stalked ones. 5. v. 

 vamosnm. He has kindly sent me notes thereupon, as 

 follows :— 



I. — SCOLOPENDRIUM RaMOSUM. 



This variety, though not new, has not before been 



