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The general appearance of the frond of a young plant is like 

 that of spinulosa, both as to form and texture, and the vernation 

 is quite similar. A well-grown frond of an old plant is much 

 more like L. Filix-mas. It appears to be exactly intermediate 

 between the two species above mentioned. With a creeping 

 caudex, and somewhat different scales, it would be called spinu- 

 losa. With a different vernation, pinnules, etc., it would be iden- 

 tified with Filix-mas. It obviously differs much from the var. 

 uliginosa (with which Mr. Lloyd, who, I believe, has not seen my 

 plant, seems to confound it), in not having the three different 

 kinds of fronds of that Fern, nor the creeping caudex. A few of 

 the smaller scales are like the dark-centred one of L. dilatata ; 

 others are like the pale, ovate ones of spinulosa. As this Fern 

 appears to connect the two forms spinulosa and Filix-mas, var. 

 incisa, we have now, it would seen, a continuous series from 

 typical F. Filix-mas to L. dilatata, as the latter and spinulosa 

 are apparently united hj glandulosa. 



I may remark that glandulosa grows plentifully in some situa- 

 tions in this neighbourhood, in close proximity to spinulosa and 

 two forms of dilatata, both of which are profusely covered with 

 stalked glands, quite as much so as glandulosa itself. I have 

 moreover plants from the same place, exactly like glandulosa, 

 but without glands. The glands therefore are not a character 

 diagnostic of glandulosa. The scales, however, of this variety, 

 and the form of frond, etc., are quite intermediate between spi- 

 nulosa and dilatata. The caudex of my glandulosa, and of one 

 form of dilatata (called by Mr, Moore tenera) is nearly, if not 

 quite, as creeping as that of spinulosa. The plant called L. dila- 

 tata, var. glandulosa, seems therefore exactly intermediate be- 

 tween the glandular forms of L. dilatata and the constantly non- 

 glandular L. cristata, var. spinulosa (Moore). 



Windermere, July 15, 1860, 



PLANTS IN FLOWEE AEOUND WHITBY, MAY, 1860. 



By T. W. GissiNG. 



As it is, no doubt, interesting to all botanists and lovers of 

 flowers to notice the time of flowering of plants in different loca- 



