22 LINNZAN SOCIETY. 
uniting the Floras of the extreme south and extreme north of 
Britain. 
(To be continued.) 
Linnzan Society, January 17, 1855 (President in the chair) ; 
among other papers the following was read :— 
Extract from a Letter addressed to the President by the Rev. 
W. H. Hawker, relating to the discovery of several new localities 
for some rare Ferns and Shells —My. Hawker writes as follows: 
—Last year I paid a visit to the English Lakes, and had the good 
fortune to find Polystichum Lonchitis growing near Ulleswater. 
I brought away one plant, and sent a frond to Newman, who 
however does not mention it in his new edition. This year, in 
Jwly, I went to the Lakes again, and had the pleasure of confirm- 
ing the above discovery ; and moreover, on my mentioning it to 
other collectors up there, a search was instituted, which resulted 
in its turning up in several localities in that district, e. g. Hel- 
vellyn, Fairfield, ete. This Fern had never been found in the 
Lake country, I believe. Whilst up there this year, I went a 
few days’ botanizing ramble with a Mr. Clowes, of Windermere, 
and on one of these days, in climbing up a terrific precipice, I 
had the delight to find Asplenium septentrionale, and right among 
them I found two plants of Asplenium Germanicum ! a guide was 
with me, who found Woodsia Ilvensis growing in some quantity : 
three good things, were they not, to be found on a spot not three 
yards square? It was on an outcrop of the iron ore, which seems 
to me always to be a good matrix for Ferns. This took place not 
many miles from Scaw Fell, though not on it. It was of course 
_ plain that the locality had never before been visited by a bota- 
| nist. Mr. Clowes found Euphorbia Cyparissias growing on Whit- 
| barrow Fells in great quantity. I have gathered it on the moun- 
j _ tain limestone of Somersetshire, near Wilts, and should think it 
_will prove to be a true native. Last September and October I 
took a rapid run on the Continent, up the Rhine, etc. The sea- 
son was late, and the flowers were mostly over. I found on the 
Jura, in one spot, my favourite Asplenium fontanum. In the pme 
forests of the Alps and Jura, Polystichum Lonchitis grows in 
wonderful luxuriance; I have dried fronds 22 inches long; its 
appearance is quite beautiful. Asplenium septentrionale, too, 
abounded on alpine rocks. 
