MAY. 105 



Grapes " Money's West's St. Peter's," and the other " Oldaker's 

 West's St. Peter's." The name given above has been restored by- 

 Mr. Thompson in the Horticultural Society's Catalogue. 



7. Black Lombardy. 



Synonyms, according to Horticultural Society's Catalogue : 

 West's St. Peter's, Money's West's St. Peter's, Raisin 

 des Carmes, Raisin de Cuba, Poonah. 



Bunch moderately large, generally but little shouldered ; berry- 

 very large, oval ; skin thin, dull reddish black, thinly overspread 

 with bloom ; pulp juicy and tender, delicately but not highly fla- 

 voured ; the leaves are middle-sized, of a deep green colour, slightly 

 woolly on the lower side, and their serratures are shallow. 



This kind is seldom seen, and yet it is well deserving of cultiva- 

 tion, being showy in appearance, and of considerable merit ; it, how- 

 ever, requires a warm temperature to bring it to perfection. In Lou- 

 don's Gardeners' Magazine, vol. v. p. 737, it is said, on the authority 

 of Mr. Money, that this Grape was raised from seed by a person 

 named West, and that the original plant grew and ripened its fruit 

 against the wall of a dwelling-house, — a statement which must be 

 considered rather apocryphal ; for, growing in the same house with 

 the Black Hamburgh, it requires two or three weeks more time to 

 acquire maturity ; besides, its present name, if correct, indicates a 

 foreign origin. J. B. Whiting. 



REMARKS ON BRITISH FERNS. 



No. V. 

 ADIANTUM. 



In this genus the clusters of fructification are usually of an ob- 

 long shape ; and the involucres of a beautiful texture on the margins 

 of the lobes of the pinnules, but not formed of them. 



A. Capillus Veneris. This is the only Adiantum as yet detected 

 in Britain, and may very justly be said to be one of the most hand- 

 some, if not the handsomest of all our British Ferns, and it is asso- 

 ciated with a family, the exotic species of which are almost unparal- 

 leled in beauty in the way of Ferns. Adiantum Capillus Veneris 

 appears, from what I can learn, to be very widely distributed over 

 the globe ; as a correspondent told me a short time ago that he had 

 seen it in great abundance in some parts of India, which I had no 

 reason to doubt, since I have had both Mosses and Lichens from 

 that country identical with some which I had formerly collected in 

 the mountainous parts of Scotland. 



I cannot at present charge my memory with ever having seen a 

 British form of this elegant little Fern, at least constantly apart from 

 the original. I have, however, been kindly favoured by H. B. Ker, 

 Esq. with a stout form of it, brought by Mrs. Ker from Cintra in 

 Portugal, where that lady detected it in great abundance growing 

 upon an old damp wall ; and doubtless it must have been very fine, 



