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OUR FRONTISPIECE. 



P. ACUL. PULCHERRIMUM FOLIOSUM EdWARDS. 



In our issue of September, 1914, we gave some account 

 of the remarkable origin of this strain in the hands of 

 Mr. J. Edwards, and we have only to ask our readers to 

 compare our illustration with any of those of the 

 " gracillimum " strain, not only of the same species 

 P. aadeattim, but also of practically the same plant 

 (since the parent was a division of the one solitary 

 Dorset find), of which the history is so well known, 

 in order to bring home to them the extraordinary 

 difference between them. The " gracillimums " originated 

 as direct sports from several sowings of the spores of 

 P. ac. pulchevriiiium to the extent roughly of thirty per cent 

 of the crops raised by the writer and by Mr. C. B. Green. 

 Only one showed a different character, viz. Mr. Green's 

 plumosum, which, however, still agreed with the rest in 

 its display of delicate, slender dissection. Induced by 

 these results, Mr. Edwards, finding some spores on his 

 division of the same plant, sowed these in the hope of 

 acquiring, if not the gracillimum type, at any rate a batch 

 of the beautiful parental one. Twice did he sow such 



