ATHYRIUM FILIX-FCEMINA. 99 



viii, p. 187. This variety he thus describes: — "In February, 

 18G3, while at Alloa, I obtained from jNIr. Dawson and Mr. 

 Paterson, dried fronds of a singularly beautiful variety of 

 Atltyrium Filix-faunina, a living plant of which I now 

 exhibit. I was informed that it had been collected in 18(>2 

 by a young gentleman, Mr. James Cosh, in a wild state by 

 a roadside in Stirlingshire, near Loch Lomond, and on the 

 estate of Buchanan. In the spring of last year I sowed a 

 few of the spores, some of which germinated, and are now 

 mostly thriving young plants, but as yet shewing no marked 

 symptoms of their parent's peculiarity. As I could find no 

 description in Moore's 'British Ferns' answering to my plant, 

 I transmitted the fronds to that gentleman, when he wrote 

 me as follows: — 'The variety oi Filix-fcejnina is quite new, so 

 far as I know, and is a very beautiful one. As a queen 

 amongst Lady Ferns it would well bear to be called Victorice.'' 

 AccordiT}gly it is published under this name in Mr. Fraser's 

 List of British Ferns and their Varieties, recently issued. The 

 fronds are from ten to eighteen inches in length, and crested 

 at the apex. The pinn?e are also crested, and instead of 

 being single as in all the other varieties, they leave the rachis 

 in pairs, and at such an angle, that each alternate pair overlaps 

 the other so as to give a beautiful plaited appearance to the 

 whole fronds." For fronds I am indebted to Professor 

 Balfour, of Edinburgh; Mr. Sadler, of Edinburgh; Mr. P. 

 Neill Eraser, of Cannonmills Lodge, Edinburgh; and to Mr. 

 John Connon, of the Buchanan Gardens. 



Fig. 424.— Middle piiina\ 



Reflexum, (Jlapham. (Fig. 424. j — Found near Scarborough, 

 in October, I8(i4, by Mr. A. C'lapham. A slender, dwarf, 

 narrow-fronded, distinct variety. Length ebncn inches, width 

 varying from two to three inches. I-'innrc api)roxiniate; pin- 

 nules distant and reflexed. Copiously soriferous. 



