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as wonderful in its beauty is that other treasure of Mr. 

 Druery's P. aculeatum gracillimum. My plant has only 

 been here a year but already it has done its share in 

 winning two first prizes. A fern which always attracts 

 favourable notice, and which has the advantage of being 

 very easily managed, is A. f. f. niagnicapitatujn, A. f. f. 

 tmco-glomevatnm, fine in its cutting as a mist of green, 

 makes visitors wonder, but it is exacting in its demands. 



If I were to allow myself to talk about ferns whose 

 interests is derived from the places where I found them, I 

 should soon grow wearisome ; here, for instance, is 

 Asplenmm inavimim from that lone rock far out in the 

 bosom of the Atlantic — the Great Skellig ; and this Lastrea 

 grew where St. Patrick's days of slavery were spent. But 

 this Athyrium, which already looks so well established, is 

 of interest, apart from the fact that it came from the 

 haunts of another Irish saint, St. Columba ; it is the 

 inequale, described in the September number to which 

 Mr. Druery has added my name ; and close beside it are 

 the curious ramose hartstongues, whose discovery is 

 described in the same issue. 



But it is time I remembered that space and patience 

 are both limited ; one glance, therefore, at these seedlings, 

 and we are done. Over two years ago I visited the 

 Clifton Gardens with an introduction to the Curator. As 

 he showed me his treasures, Mr. Harris pointed to a P. ang. 

 Plnmostim, which he rightly considered to be exceptionally 

 fine. Neither I nor anyone else has succeeded in pro- 

 pagating it, he said ; but if you like to try, here is a 

 frond with some spores. Thus incited, I made a careful 

 sowing, and the seedlings which lie before us are the 

 result. It is too soon to speak with any certainty about 

 their future, but if present appearances are not strangely 

 misleading they will justify the attention they have 

 received, and prove worthy of their distinguished origin. 



H. KiNGSMiLL Moore. 



