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Scotch Locality for Asplenium fontanum. 

 By the Rev. W. T. Bree, M.A. 



In the August number of the ' Phytologist ' I gave a most imperfect 

 notice relative to Asplenium fontanum having been recently found in 

 Scotland ; but having unfortunately lost the memorandum I made at 

 the time the information was given me, I was unable to state either 

 the locality of the fern or the name of my informant. I have now 

 ascertained through the kindness of Lady Maria Finch and her intel- 

 ligent gardener, Mr. David Hutcheson, that Asplenium fontanum was 

 met with by him in considerable abundance on " shaded rocks by the 

 sea two miles north-east of Stonehaven, Kincardineshire, in 1842." 

 I can now therefore entertain no doubt as to this beautiful fern being 

 a native of Scotland. 



W. T. Bree. 



Allesley Rectory, Septr. 15, 1848. 



Hereditary Variations of Plants. (Extract from the l Gardeners' 

 and Farmers' Journal,' of September 9, 1848). 



" The following not less remarkable or interesting fact was related 

 to us by Mr. M'Nab, namely, that he had sown the seeds of Ilex Ba- 

 learica, from which he had produced the common Holly. He had 

 also raised from the seeds of the tender Madeira Holly (Ilex Perado) 

 a variety identical with that known as Hodgin's Holly, and although 

 the offspring of a tender parent, yet, like Hodgin's variety, it was also 

 quite hardy. We regard these as extremely interesting facts. We 

 have here the Ilex Balearica reverting back into the type of the genus 

 the common English Holly, and this, too, although an exotic, and 

 acknowledged species ; while in the case of the Ilex Perado, a plant 

 scarcely deserving the name of even half-hardy, it produces an off- 

 spring not only wholly different and unlike itself, but what is far more 

 remarkable, the progeny is hardy while the parent is tender." — Editor 

 of the ' Gardeners' Journal,' in an article intituled " Notes of a Gar- 

 dening Tour," and referring to the Botanic Garden of Edinburgh. 



