124 



recorded as a wild find. It came to me from West Cork, 

 where it was discovered by my sister, Mrs. G. B. Fair- 

 brother, on the banks of a stream, close to a bridge. On 

 both sides of the stream Scolopendvium vulgave is abundant, 

 and the S. vamosnm was among its common relations. 

 Some five plants were sent to me, each bears from one to 

 three fronds, and every frond, or, to be more precise, the 

 stem of every frond, is symetrically divided into three. 



What effect cultivation may have it is difficult to 

 foresee, but at present the specimens are small, the 

 largest would not quite measure six inches. Growing, as 

 they did, among their taller brethren, they were not easily 

 found. 



2. — Athyrium Filix Fcemina Incequale Laxum 



(H. K. Moore). 



Such is the name with which the Editor has honoured a 

 *' Find " which I have just made in the neighbourhood 

 of Dunfanaghy, Co. Donegal. It is true that he moderates 

 my enthusiasm by saying it belongs to " a section of, in 

 these days, ineligibles " ; but his heart must have softened 

 to it when he suggested the name, and I am in hopes that 

 if I succeed in propagating, and present him with a plant, 

 he may yet come to share my feelings for its grace and 

 beauty. The characteristic of the fern is, as its name 

 suggests, inequality, or irregularity ; but the inequalities 

 are so uniform, consisting of the introduction throughout 

 of short and of long pinnae and sub-pinnse, that no appear- 

 ance of deformity is presented, and the locse formation 

 helps to give the whole plant an indescribably light and 

 graceful effect. 



I found it by the roadside, growing in the interstices of 

 stones built over a well. It was a solitary specimen. The 

 few other Athyviums present were quite normal. 



August, I913. H. KiNGSMILL MoORE, 



