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some of the specimens were five feet high. In all probability, it will 

 be found plentifully throughout the country lying between the river 

 Embome and the Hampshire Downs." — IV. Mathews, jun. ; Edghas- 

 toii House, Birmingham, October 3, 1853. 



Filago spathulata near Woodstock. 



" It may be worth while to record the occurrence of Filago spathu- 

 lata, Presl, in the neighbourhood of Woodstock. I gathered it on the 

 11th instant, about half a mile from the town, where it grows abun- 

 dantly, in waste places by the side of the Oxford road." — Id.; 

 October 18. 



Lastrea Thelypteris in Warwickshire. 



" Since the draining of the bog at Allesley (see Mag. Nat. Hist, 

 vol. V. p. 199), I have had no reason to believe that Lastrea Thely- 

 pteris has ever been met with in Warwickshire. About three weeks 

 ago, a few specimens of this fern were brought to me, for examination, 

 by Mr. Henry Bromwich, gardener, of My ton. Last Tuesday (Octo- 

 ber 11), accompanied by Mr. Bromwich, I visited the locality, a 

 swamp, indicated on the Ordnance Map by a faint nebulous mark, 

 about four miles N.N.W. of Warwick, half a mile N. of Goodrest 

 Lodge, and within a few yards of Rounsel Lane. We found this 

 beautiful fern growing in great abundance, and of unusually large 

 dimensions. The fronds were from two feet and a half to four feet 

 high."— ^F. G. Perry ; Warwick, October 17, 1853. 



Aceras Anthropophora, and Ferns with bifid and multifid Fronds, 



in Jersey. 



" I found, the other day, at Rozel, a plant of the Aceras Anthro- 

 pophora, in seed ; so there is another plant to be added to Babing- 

 ton's Catalogue. I have been shown specimens of the following 

 ferns, with the extremity of the fronds bifid, and sometimes multifid, 

 which have been gathered in the Island ; viz., Asplenium Tricho- 

 maues, A. Adiantum-nigrum, A. lanceolatum, Blechnum boreale, 

 Polypodium vnlgare, Aspidium Filix-mas, and Scolopendrium vul- 

 gare ; but, 1 believe, this last is frequently found in that state. I have 

 myself found a plant of Aspidium angulare in which some fronds were 

 bifid and others multifid ; and there was only one frond in the whole 

 that was simple." — M. Piquet, in a letter to N. B. Ward, Esq., who 

 kindly communicates it. 



