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rocks, but, as he had no specimen and subsequently admitted that he had 

 probably mistaken something else for this variety, we did not take any 

 further notice of the communication. The gentlemen through whom the 

 present information came are unimpeachable both for competence and 

 veracity. A few lobes of the frond were sent with the notice of the dis- 

 covery. 



It is also deserving of notice that this is the same part of the country as 

 that from which this Fern was previously as above reported ; for Lingfield 

 is in the Weald, and West Hoathly is in the forest on the Wealden border. 

 The latter is in another county, but Ferns and other plants overleap poli- 

 tical boundaries. 



Our readers are likely to bear moi'e about this inland station for what 

 is a maritime plant here but not on the continent ; and it promises to be 

 a subject of discussion as long and keen as that about Blechnnm alp'innm. 

 The latter fact has not yet been satisfactorily settled, except thus far, that 

 B. alpmum was found in Scotland, and that there was but one plant in the 

 Breadalbane locality, and that it would now be in vain to go there to look 

 for it, because the single plant then and there discovered was taken away. 

 One of our excellent correspondents, Mr. E. E., of Wheathamstead, has 

 mystified the subject still more, for he sent a frond of the same from a 

 fair collector and cultivator of Ferns, one of his neighbours, who assured 

 him that she collected the Fern in the Lake district, and that there it was 

 plentiful. Our informant says nothing about the plentifulness of the 

 Maidenhair Fern in Lingfield parish, nor that he found but one plant, and 

 took that away. We understand and believe that the plant is there 

 still, and we hope it will long flourish and increase for the satisfaction 

 of the curious, and for the conviction of the sceptical. Any of our friends 

 may have the address of the gentleman who made the discovery, by 

 private application. Lingfield is not so far from London as Killin ; 

 and there is more prospect of finding Adiantnm in Surrey than Blechnum 

 alpinu}ii in the Highlands of Scotland. 



Gentiana cnwiata. (See ' Phytologist,' vol. vi. N. s.) — G. cruciata is 

 said by Gerard, p. 434, to have been found by him "in a pasture at the 

 west end of Little Kayne, on the north side of the way leading from Brain- 

 tree to Much Duimiow, and in the horseway by the same close." This 

 has never been confirmed. ('Flora of Essex,' p. 205.) 



The Editor is obliged to " H. T.," of No. 1, Clarendon Villas, Southsea, 

 Hants, for telling him that Lathi/rus NissoUa and Fritillaria Meleagris 

 should appear under another standard, protected or ushered in beneath 

 another flag. Sunm cidque tribuatar is a good axiom ; " let him who blows 

 the loudest or best blast bear away the horn." The readers are humbly 

 requested to move the two beauties atbreuaraed from the responsibility of 

 " E. B. P.," and put them under the charge and guardianship of " H. T.," 

 The benevolent reader is also requested to put an L, i. e. small capital, into 

 the name of the place under which the Fritillary and the Grasspoly should 

 not have appeared. The same kind personage is requested to change the 

 heading of pp. 226 and 227 from western into eastern; or to take away 

 the WE and put ea in their place. 



The Editor is much indebted to " W. G. F. P.," of The Coppice, Hen- 

 ley-on-Thames, who has sent two small fronds of Aspleiiium lanceolatum, 

 found on the wall of a cottage garden near Henley. This discovery is not 



