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tion in its pages, prior to any other use being made of it. The subjoined list of 

 Herefordshire ferns only, as far as I have had an opportunity of observing them, will 

 perhaps show what is desired. 



List of the Ferns of Herefordshire. 

 Lomaria Spicant. Abundant: Dinmore Lastraea spinulosa 



Hill, Shobden-hill woods, &c. Athyrium Filix-foemina 

 Pteris aquilina irriguum 



AUosorus crispus. Malvern Hills, {E. Asplenium Adiantum-nigrum 



Lees). Ruta-muraria 



Polypodium vulgare Trichomanes 



Phegopteris. Aymestree quarry, Scolopendrium vulgave 



Shobden-hill woods. C'eterach officinarum. Abundant : gar- 



Dryopteris. Ditto, ditto. den walls in the borough of 



Polystichum angulare Leominster, 



aculeatum Ophioglossum vulgatum 



lobatum Cystopteris fragilis has been recorded as 



Lastraea Oreopteris. West Hope, Din- growing near Ludlow, but I 



more, Aymestree quarry. am neither certain as to the 



Filix-mas locality nor the authority, 



dilatata 

 Each named variety might be recorded as a species, in order to save trouble : and 

 where a species is recorded as having been found in a county, and the writer has not 

 himself found it, the name of the finder or recorder might be added in parentheses. 

 —Id. 



Art. XCVIII. — Proceedings of Societies. 



BOTANICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON. 



October 7, 1842. — Adam Gerard, Esq. in the chair. Donations to the library were 

 announced from G. Francis, Esq. British plants were received from the Rev. A. 

 Bloxham, Dr. Bossey, Messrs. Fordham, Bidwell, Doubleday, Holman, &c. 



Mr. D. Stock, of Bungay, Suffolk, presented monstrosities, collected by him at 

 Earsham, Norfolk, of Scolopendrium vulgare bearing two fronds, the one being bar- 

 ren and reniform, the other bearing sori and elongated, with the midrib spirally twisted. 

 Also of Aspidium lobatum, with the rachis much abbreviated and slightly recurved, 

 pinnae numerous and overlapping ; and of two abortive specimens of a rose from his 

 garden, both of which produced perfectly formed and leafy branches from the axis of 

 the flowers. Mr. Stock also presented specimens of Thelephora caryophyllea (new to 

 Great Britain), discovered by him in August, 1841, in a plantation at Bungay, Suf- 

 folk. This is distinct from Thel. terrestris (syn. Auricularia caryophyllea, Bulliard), 

 and Thel. laciniata (syn. Helvetia caryophyllea, Bolton, and Auricularia caryophyllea, 

 Sowerby). 



Mr. John Thompson exhibited specimens of Carex irrigua, Sm., collected by him 

 at Muckle Moss, near Thorngrafton, Northumberland. Mr. Thomas Twining, jun., 

 exhibited a large collection of cultivated specimens from Twickenham. 



Read, the continuation of a paper from Mr. R. S. Hill, being " An Enquiry into 

 Vegetable Morphology.'' 



