20 TRANSACTIONS, ifATtJRAL HISTORY SOCIETY OP GLASGOW. 



by the Rev. Mr. Landsborough in his note in the Botanical 

 Society's Transactions before mentioned, is as follows: — "Tricho- 

 manes radicans was collected by me near Dougarie, Arran, in 

 1876. There were three small and de^Dauperated roots, of which 

 I took one; it is still alive [1887], and much increased in size 

 since I collected it. The place of its occurrence was of such 

 a nature as to entirely preclude the idea of its having been 

 planted. For obvious reasons the exact locality need not be 

 mentioned." 



By the kindness of Mr. Kidston and Mrs. George J. Combe, 

 I am able to exhibit the original fronds of the Corrie and the 

 Dougarie finds. 



In 1877 the late Mr. Morris Young, then Curator of the 

 Museum in Paisley, sent for me to verify his identification of a 

 basketful of fronds and rhizomes brought from Arran by Miss 

 MacBean, a sister of Mr. A. F. MacBean, Rector of the Paisley 

 Grammar School, These proved to be fronds and rhizomes of 

 Trichomanes radicans, Sw. The basket contained about a dozen 

 fronds, and portions of the rhizome amounting to upwards of a 

 yard in length. The Fern was new to Miss MacBean, and was 

 brought by her to Mr. Young for identification. Unfortunately 

 it had lain in the basket exposed to the air for some days, and 

 although Mr. Young planted and nursed it carefully he failed to 

 save it. Miss MacBean's account of its discovery is as follows : — 

 She and a friend were at Lochranza in August, and when walk- 

 ing between the edge of tlie cliflfs and the hills towards the North 

 end of the island, she stumbled and fell through putting her 

 foot into one of the drains crossing the ground. On drawing 

 aside the ferns and long grass, and looking down, she saw a 

 small plant of Hartstongue, and knelt to reach it, but failed on 

 account of the depth of the cutting. She brought up, however, 

 in her grasp some fronds which appeared uncommon, and she 

 secured as many as she could reach, together with portions of 

 the "root," placing them in her flower-basket, where they had 

 lain till brought to Mr. Young. There does not seem room for 

 doubt as to the genuineness of the discovery, and this position in 

 which the plant was found, as well as its luxuriance of growth, 

 quite excludes the idea of its introduction. I am sorry that 

 none of the fronds from this station, or, as far as at present 



