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" ' The fern was found by Mr. Campion, the owner of Danny, on 

 an old brick wall forming a parapet to a cellar-window. The family 

 have never introduced nor cultivated ferns at any period ; and the 

 plant would still have escaped notice, as it long has done, had not 

 Mr. Campion's grandson, a little boy, of twelve years of age, taken a 

 fancy for ferns, which induced Mr. Campion to bring in any he saw, 

 for the amusement of the child, who was in too delicate a state of 

 health to go himself in search of them. Among others, the Asple- 

 nium was gathered and brought in, without the knowledge of its being 

 rare. I feel satisfied the plant is spontaneous, though its position 

 may make it appear doubtful. Danny is a large Elizabethan house ; 

 and the outside walls have not been touched for many years. I have 

 requested the family to cherish the root. There are other ferns grow- 

 ing in the same locale, but common to the country, which is rich in 

 ferns, and contains some rather rare species. The Oreopteris grows 

 in the vicinity ; Ceterach and Trichomanes, a few miles from it, finer 

 than in any other part of England ; and the Dryopteris has lately 

 been found not very distant. To these, might be added a long list of 

 more generally dispersed ferns.' " 



The Phytologist Club. 



Owe Hundred and Forty-Jirst Sitting. — Saturdat/, January 29, 1853. 



Mr. Newman, President, in the chair. 



The President read the following notes, from Mr. J. G. Baker, 

 dated Market Place, Thirsk, January 20, 1853 : — 



On the Identity of Hieraciiim nudicaule of Edmondston with H. 

 murornm. Fries. 



" In the account of an excursion to the banks of the Findhorn, 

 near Forres, in the second volume of the 'Phytologist' (Phytol. ii. 

 184), the late T. Edmondston has described at length an Hieracium 

 which he noticed, and proposed it as a novelty, under the specific 

 name of nudicaule. It has never been generally accepted by other 

 botanists, or identified with certainly by authors, but is mentioned in 

 the ' Cybele Britannica ' and the ' London Catalogue ' as an ambigu- 

 ous form or species. 



" A portion of one of the specimens collected, for which I am 

 indebted to the kindness of Mr. E. Edwardsj has been for some time 



