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In conclusion I would recommend the West Coast of 

 Scotland to all Fern lovers as a locality worthy of a 

 visit, as I feel convinced that there is a lot of interesting 

 things to be found in many of the less frequented moors 

 and mountains. 



NEW FERNS. 



SCOLOPENDRIUM VULGARE CrISPUM FiMBRIATUM 



Walton. 



Our member, Mr. J. W. Walton, has kindly sent us a 

 plant which he has raised from the Cropper section, and 

 which is so beautifully and deeply frilled and fringed, and 

 is so wide in the frond, that we have considered it worthy 

 of a special name. It is decidedly the best form of the 

 section that we have seen. 



P. VULGARE SeMILACERUM CrISPATUM. 



From our member, Mr. W. Bell, we have received 

 fronds of two finds of his of P. vulgar e, one of which, 

 found by him near Ulverston, in September, 1910, has 

 bold-growing fronds of a well developed semilacevum type, 

 bat distinguished by being markedly crispy and with long 

 basal pinnai, rendering it almost deltoid. The colour is a 

 dark green, and though the plant is now robust and healthy, 

 so far it has remained perfectly barren. The other form 

 was found at Furness Abbey, in 191 1, and is a very well 

 marked form of scmilaceviun, with very broad bi- pinnate 

 fronds with pinna? two inches or more wide. This is 

 boldly fertile, and in this respect emphasises the barrenness 

 of the first described form, as the two have been grown on 

 under precisely the same conditions. 



near Barnstaple a few years ago. This has developed into a finely 

 dissected form on the lines of Cornubiense, but so far without that 

 terrible tendency to revert which mars that beautiful variety. Scores 

 of fronds have been produced all true to type, so that its constancy 

 may now be fairly considered as established. Editor. 



