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growing. There are other lanes still untouched which we 

 want you to come and help to explore. 



I am, Yours faithfully, F. W. Stansfield. 



July 2nd, 19 14. 



I returned home on Monday from a long week with my 

 son at Taunton. Most of the available time has been 

 spent in fern hunting. I was very much handicapped by 

 the hedges having been nearly all recently cut and the 

 ferns consequently showing little beyond the points of 

 mutilated stumps. 



The finds were: — 



1. P. ang. lineare, like lineatum Moly (T.S.). 



2. L. f. mas polydactyla, thorough but not very good ; 

 left behind. 



3. P. ang. grandidens (or dentatum) (a perfectly regular 

 and symmetrica] form). 



4. Polypod semilacerum (Dunster). I suspect this may 

 be the same as your macrosorum. It was growing in a 

 chink of a high wall, straight in front of the hotel. 



5. P. angulare divisilobum, neat and promising, much 

 mutilated, only two pinnae visible when growing. 



6. P. ang. acutilobum, a very fine form, very lax and 

 with very sharp claws. Reminds one of Moly's divis. 

 falcatum in cutting. This, the best find of all, was on the 

 last day, Sunday (near a pub.). My son and I both 

 spotted it simultaneously. 



I found one in place L. cemnla, which I fancy is rare in 

 Somerset. Cystopteris was only once seen (at White- 

 stanton). Ordinary Aspleniiims very abundant in places, 

 but rather local. Cctevach not very common. P. aculeatum 

 very fine and large near Chard. 



The Editor would remind the Members that Messrs. 

 H. B. May and Sons, Edmonton, are distributing true 

 plants of that uniquely beautiful fern, P. aculeatmn gracilli' 

 mum Dvueryii. 



