222 BOTANICAL NOTES, NOTICES, AND QUERIES. 
The Rev. Mr. Bloxam has the credit of causing two new localities to 
be recorded in the ‘ Phytologist,’ one between Tan-y-Bwlch and Trema- 
doc, and the other in the Isle of Purbeck, Dorsetshire. 
The next published station is near Petersfield, Hants (not Petersham, 
Surrey, as it 1s stated in the ‘Journal of Botany’), on an old wall, where 
it grows abundantly, with other wall-ferns. Mr. Brown, it appears from 
said article, has specimens sent from the neighbourhood of Alnwick Castle, 
Northumberland. 
The only certain locality for this rarity appears to be the Petersfield 
one, from which the writer of this note had specimens, some of which he 
sent to the Botanical Society of London, and this subsequently appeared 
in print in a report of their proceedings. My. Bloxam would do a kind- 
ness to the readers of the ‘ Phytologist’ if he would send specimens, or a 
specimen, of Asplenium fontanum, Br., either to the editor of the ‘ Phy- 
tologist,’ or to the Secretary of the Botanical Society of London. 
The Cumbrian and Northumbrian stations are worth visiting, both for 
the sake of Asplenium fontanum, as well as for other rarities which they . 
are likely to produce. For the latter, application should be made to the 
gardeners at Alnwick Castle; and for the former, the aid of some of the 
guides in the Lake district might be available. B. A. 
Note.—We thank our Correspondent, and hope our botanical friends 
will take the hint, and look for this interesting plant, so long ignored as 
a British production by the highest authorities. We particularly urge 
them to direct their scrutiny to Amersham Church, which appears to have 
been a genuine station for the plant in the eighteenth century. This lo- 
cality, however, is not in Berkshire, as stated in the ‘Kew Miscellany,’ 
but in the great vale of Bucks, in the high road from Uxbridge to Buck- 
ingham. ‘'Tan-y-Bwlch and Tremadoe, or between them, is also a likely 
locality, but these places are not in South Wales, as we are informed in 
the ‘Journal,’ but in North Wales, and almost in the high-road between 
Dolgelley and Beddgelert, through Maentwrog. 
We also subjoin Sir James E. Smith’s account of the locality where 
this Fern once grew :—‘‘On Amersham or Agmodesham Church, Bucks, 
found by a Mr. Bradney [Do any of our readers know any particulars 
about this ancient collector of Ferns ?], according to Mr. Hudson, and 
from whence it was brought alive to Kew Garden by the late Mr. Aiton, 
from whom I have a specimen; but the church has been whitewashed 
and the plant destroyed. Mr. Hudson gathered the same in a stony 
situation near Wybourn in Westmoreland, or rather perhaps Wiborn in 
Cumberland.” 
In the second volume of Huc’s ‘ Travels in Tartary and Thibet’ (p. 86) 
isan account of a Fern (that is also common in France) being eaten as a 
most delicate vegetable after being simply boiled in an early stage of its 
growth. ‘Another dish,” says the author, “was furnished by a plant 
very common in France, and the merit of which has never yet been ade- 
quately appreciated: we refer to the young stems of Fern. When these 
are gathered quite tender, before they are covered with down, and while 
the first leaves are bent and rolled up in themselves, you have only to boil 
them in pure water to realize a dish of delicious asparagus.” Can any 
