HAY-SCENTEb BUCKLER-FERN. 75 



Distant-leaYed Buckler-fern (Nephrodium remotum}. 



Under this name the late Mr. Moore described as a distinct 

 species a fern gathered by Mr. F. Clowes in 1859 growing 

 in marshy ground near Windermere, and which the finder 

 apparently took to be N. spinulosum, for he says that after a 

 year or two of cultivation he found that the rootstock did not 

 creep like that of spinulosum. It was erect like that of the 

 Male-fern, and every year the plant grew more like N.filix-mas. 



The description of it is : rootstock tufted, scales numerous, 

 some broad, some lance-shaped, uniform in colour, and extend- 

 ing up the rachis. The fronds are narrow lance-shaped, glossy, 

 twice pinnate, three or four feet high. The pinnae are triangular 

 lance-shaped, without stalks, except the lowest pair. The 

 pinnules are oblong and deeply cut. The frond is without 

 glands, as -also is the indusium. 



The only other locality from which it has been reported is in 

 South Germany. There seems every probability that this is a 

 hybrid between N. filix-mas and either spinulosum or dilata- 

 tum. Strength is given to this supposition by the experience of 

 Mr. Lowe, who so regarded it. Although it bears an abund- 

 ance of sori, he says : " After a score of trials I have failed to 

 raise one plant." 



The Latin name remotum refers to the lowest pair of pinnae 

 in relation to the rachis, and contrasted with the attachment of 

 the upper pinnae. 



Hay-scented Buckler-fern {Nephrodium amuhuri). 



This is another fern whose claim to specific rank is not 

 above suspicion. But most of the authorities recognize it as 

 such, though some of them appear to be not quite happy about 

 it. We must give a description of it, but for those who have 

 no time to waste we will also condense it into a definition, thus : 



