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which P. vidgarc and L. thdyptevis can thrive abroad, the 

 latter especially, which here grows in absolute mud, for 

 which its widely creeping rhizome admirably adapts it, 

 while dry, strong ground would appear to form an 

 impossible habitat. P. vulgarc in sheets on rock faces 

 is another anomaly, probably due to climatal conditions. 

 It is to be hoped that we may receive further notes 

 regarding the plants he brought over. 



Personally, we have also had some experience of British 

 Ferns abroad. In the vicinity of Smyrna, for instance, 

 we found two such widely opposed Ferns as Ceterach 

 officinaruju and Gymnogvamma hptophyUa (confined here to the 

 Channel Islands), growing together in abundance along 

 m.ostly dry water-courses there ; while in Galician 

 (Austria) forests the ground in the winter was a solid mass 

 of crowns of our native deciduous species, so that in the 

 summer a veritable Fern paradise must be in evidence, 

 though we experienced as mucti as 29 below zero 

 Centigrade = 52° of frost F. Our member, Mr. Fraser, 

 of Uclnelet, British Columbia, who sent us a very 

 fine bipinnate Blcchmim spicaut, which, however, reverted 

 here to the normal, reports that this species is so rampant 

 there as to form a pernicious weed in his Rhododendron 

 nurseries. He has also sent us several marked forms of 

 P. vidgare, among them a slender growing serrulate form 

 which we have named P. v. gracilc Fraser, and another 

 which is almost an exact counterpart, though even more 

 marked, of P. v. macrostachya O' Kelly, found in Ireland. 

 0\er there these undoubted varieties were named as 

 distinct species, a curious instance of the ignorance of 

 classifying botanists as regards varietal capacity of one 

 and the same species. 



C. T. D. 



