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ruin a season's growth. Scolopendriums, especially the 

 cvisptim section, make charming specimen plants for the 

 house, and if a sufficient number be grown to enable them 

 to be changed frequently, they do not appear to suffer any 

 damage. 



When the Society's meeting was held at iVrnside, Mr. 

 Henwood and myself went to see Mr. Whitwell's collec- 

 tion. We there saw a Scol. vul. sagittato cvispiim, which 

 Mr. Whitwell informed us was given to him by the late 

 Mr. Wollaston, and was a division of his original find. 

 The sagittation is most marked, and was most interesting, 

 as it appeared to be a counterpart of a similar form found 

 by Moly. With charming generosity, Mr. W^hitwell gave 

 both Mr. Henwood and myself small plants which he 

 had raised from his, so that I might compare it with 

 Moly's form. It is now sufficiently developed to pro- 

 nounce them distinct. They are both very fine. At Mr. 

 Whitwell's we also saw a magnificent (no other word is 

 adequate) specimen of Asplenmm tvichomanes incisuvi. I 

 find the Asplenia most difficult subjects to grow. They 

 seem to thrive for a time and then gradually dwindle. 

 Perhaps some member who is successful with them will 

 impart the secret of success. Subsequently we saw Mr. 

 Bolton's collection, and there saw a true variegated Scol. 

 crispum. I had a similar form of Moly's finding, and 

 again secured a division for comparison. There is, how- 

 ever, no doubt as to the distinctness of the two forms, both 

 are true vaviegatums. 



For some time past I have been endeavouring to get 

 together a collection of dwarf or midget forms of the 

 various types of Scol. vulgave, but alas ! when many of the 

 so-called dwarfs are installed in congenial quarters, they 

 either assume normal or in some case abnormal propor- 

 tions. Three delightful small crispums, found by two ladies 

 in Dorsetshire and grown by them in pots, divisions of 

 which w^ere presented to the Editor and myself, and promptly 



