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Grammitis Celerach growing in a Tree, and some other Hampshire 

 Localities for Ferns not mentioned by Dr. Bromjield. By E,. W. 

 Smith, Esq. 



Grammitis Ceterach growing on a Tree. — Being an amateur and 

 occasional collector of our indigenous ferns, I am induced to record 

 the occurrence of what appears to me a most interesting group of 

 these plants on an old tree at Pitt, in this neighbourhood, but not 

 within half a mile of any house. The gnarled roots of the tree over- 

 hang a very ancient and deep chalk lane adjoining the Roman road 

 to Salisbury, and on these 1 found Asplenium Adiantum-nigrum, A. 

 Trichomanes, and several plants of Grammitis Ceterach. I removed 

 some of each species, and they are now all growing together in my 

 garden, but you may be sure I did not destroy the locality. I do 

 not find any previous record of Grammitis Ceterach growing on a 

 tree as an original habitat, and the whole group together is most 

 interesting. 



Hampshire Localities for Ferns not mentioned by Dr. Brom- 

 jield. — 



Lastrea Tliehjpteris. Grows in one small spot near this town. I 

 see Dr. Bromfield has only noticed it at Freshwater, Isle of Wight. 



Botrychium Lunaria. I found it this year growing in meadows 

 near the springs of the Itchen, at Titchbourne and Hintou. 



Lycopodium inundatum. At St. Jermyn's, near Romsey. 



Pilularia globulifera. At Badderley. 



R. W. Smith. 



Winchester, July II, 1851. 



Abnormal Form of Lolium perenne, and Occurrence of Anacharis 

 Alsinastrum at Cambridge. By the Rev. W. M. Hind, M.A. 



Abnormal Form of Lolimn perenne. — I have the pleasure of for- 

 warding specimens of Lolium perenne, Z., considerably changed in 

 growth from the normal state of the plant. The chief variations are : 

 — culm geniculate ; spikelets, except the lowest one, crowded, diver- 

 gent, and without glumes; the lowest spikelet is invariably as in the 

 ordinary state of the plant, distant, appressed, and with a glume ; the 

 next spikelet has most generally a glume, but not always ; the spike- 



