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Queries respecting the Culture of Ferns. 



Smyrnium Olusatrum. Alexanders. Formerly in great request as a pot- 

 herb ; old eda.v rerum has devoured the reputation of this, as well as of 

 sundry other culinary Umbellatas, as Chervil, Skirret, &c. It grows upon 

 St. Vincent's Rocks, and abundantly on the Steep Holmes. May, June. 



Apium Petroselinum. Culinary parsley. This plant is a native of Sar- 

 dinia, and has always been excluded from the English Flora j it grows 

 in tolerable plenty on St. Vincent's Rocks, springing from between the 

 fissures of the limestone. 



Meum Feeniculum. Fennel. St. Vincent's Rocks. 



Pimpinella dioica. St. Vincent's Rocks. Botanist's Guide. 

 (To be continued.) 



QUERIES RESPECTING THE CULTURE OF FERNS. 



(To the Editor of the West of England Journal.) 

 As Horticulture is one among the subjects treated of in the West of 

 England Journal, the writer is desirous of receiving through its pages some 

 information as to the best method of cultivating ferns, which he is per- 

 suaded is all that can be wanting to render general their introduction into 

 gardens. The country round Bristol seems to offer peculiar facilities for 

 this, both in the number and variety of this ornamental race which it 

 contains. 



He would also be glad of any addition that can be made to the follow- 

 ing list of those which are to be found in the district. 



Genus. 



Polypodium. 



Aspidium. 



Scolopendrium. 



Ceterach (Scolopend.) 



Blechnum. 



Pteris. 



Ophioglossum. 



Crystea. 



Asplenium. 



Species. 



Vulgare. 



Dryopteris. 



Oreopteris. 



Filix mas. 



Filix femina. 



Cristatum. 



Aculeatum. 



Lobatum. 



Spinulosum ? 



Vulgare. 



Localities, &c. 



Old trees and walls. 

 Cheddar Cliffs. 

 Leigh Woods, &c. 

 Very common. 

 Leigh Woods, &c. 



ditto. 

 Mendip Hills. 



ditto. 



ditto. 

 Moist banks. 



Ofl&cinarum (Ceterach.) Old walls. 

 Boreale. Leigh Woods. 



Aquilina. 

 Vulgatum. 

 Fragilis. 

 Trichoraanes. 

 Ruta muraria. 

 Lanceolatum. 

 Adiantum nigrum. 

 Marinura. 



Downs and heaths. 

 Leigh Woods. 

 Mendip Hills. 

 Old walls. 



ditto. 



ditto. 

 Hedge rows. 

 Clevedon. 



X. Y. Z. 



