DECEMBER. 285 



Mr. William Willison, of the New Gardens, Whitby, has two nice 

 varieties, seedlings of this spring. 



Belle Veau. A fine light mulberry-mottled flower; good out- 

 line and well inflated both back and front. 



Grandisswia. An attractive flower in the style of Baron Eden, 

 but more striking in colour ; shape tolerable ; habit rather delicate. 



Of my own seedlings I shall say nothing further, than that 

 blooms and trusses of several of them were exhibited at the Worton- 

 Cottage Meeting on the 5th June last, and reported to be of " an 

 excellent class," two of which {Model and Negro) were selected for 

 Mr. Andrews to take a coloured memorandum of. 



Messrs. Dickson and Co. of Edinburgh are extensive cultivators 

 of the Calceolaria, and eminent raisers of seedlings. During my ab- 

 sence a box of blooms had arrived from this establishment containing 

 many fine flowers, but which, however, on my return, I found much 

 faded. Julia, Duke of Richmond, Gem of the North, and Acantha, 

 appeared to be very fine varieties. 



Mr. N. Gaines of Surrey Lane, Battersea, also cultivates the Cal- 

 ceolaria rather extensively, and from him I had blooms of some good 

 things. They were principally blooms of Mr. Kinghorn's seedlings 

 which have already been let out. 



A few notes on seedling Pansies, Dahlias, and other flowers, are 

 reserved for a future Number. 



Whitby, 15M Oct, 1850. M. Woodhouse. 



[Of the flowers figured in our Plate, Pearl, Resplendens, Capti- 

 vation, and Surprise, were raised b)' Mr. Henry Major of Knos- 

 thorpe, Leeds ; Hamlet by Mr. Holmes of Sudbury, Derbyshire ; 

 Negro and Model by our correspondent, Mr. Woodhouse of Whitby. 

 They were all exhibited at the Worton-Cottage Meetings, and given 

 to Mr. Andrews to figure at the time. — Editor.] 



REMARKS ON BRITISH FERNS. 



NO. IX. 



[Continued from p. 253.J 



CYSTOPTERIS. 



In this genus the involucre is fixed by its wide base to the lower side 

 of the clusters of fructification, a circumstance that readily distin- 

 guishes it from Aspidium, Lastrrea, and Polystichum ; and certainly 

 the difference in position, shape, and substance, warrants the separa- 

 tion from the above genera. Doubtless ere this time C. Dickieana 

 is pretty widely distributed, and will be still more so, as I have ample 

 opportunity of knowing that it is a general favourite with the ad- 

 mirers of British Ferns ; in fact, many now appear to concur with me 

 in considering it one of the most distinct forms in the genus; in 

 support of this opinion, the seeds or sporules produce new individuals, 

 identical with the original plant. 



