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parents. Only one plant was found on an old wall in a vineyard near 
Porto Zigale, in the island of Lossin (see “ Britten’s European Ferns,” 
p. 187). Its spores, however, are perfectly fertile and reproduce the type 
exactly. 
It is a peculiarly interesting plant. The fronds, six or seven inches 
long, are leathery and pinnatifid, with broad rounded lobes, merging 
into an almost smooth-edged, tapering terminal, strongly resembling 
S. vulgare, the pinnatifid portion equally resembling C. officinarum. 
The back of the fronds is slightly scaly, and the fructification, which is 
profuse, is sometimes single, of the Asplenium type, and sometimes in 
associated pairs exactly resembling Scolopendriuwm. ‘The plants raised 
from its spores are freely produced, and despite its origin in the Adriatic 
have proved quite hardy under glass. Assuming it to be a hybrid, which 
can hardly be doubted, this fertility and constancy to type are very 
remarkable. 
Exuisit oF Hyprip HemMeROcALLIS BY G. YEvD, Clifton Cottage, York. 
Flowers of Hemerocallis Thumbergu (seed parent) and H. awrantiaca 
(pollen parent) were shown, with a number of seedlings from this cross. 
The flowers varied much both in shape and colour. Many of them 
showed a sort of halo round the interior of the blossom. It was with 
the intention of producing a flower of this appearance that the cross was 
originally made. A close observation of the blossom of H. awrantiaca 
reveals a suspicion of sucha halo. This halo does not confine itself to 
the dark-coloured flowers, but appears in many of the lightest coloured. 
One dark-coloured self was effective, but perhaps the best, certainly the 
largest of all, was a bloom with more or less of the shape of awrantiaca, 
and a colour but little darker than that of Thwmbergii. 
