256 HINTS ON A NEW CHARACTER IN FERNS. 
Glaucium luteum. 
Raphanus Raphanistrum. 
Cerastium semidecandrum. 
Malva moschata. 
Erodium cicutarium. 
Geranium columbinum. 
Rhamunuus cathartica. 
Trifolium medium. 
Ornithopus perpusillus. 
Lathyrus Nissolia. 
Potentilla nemoralis, Nest. 
Rubus Ideeus. 
Rosa rubiginosa. 
Pyrus Malus. 
(Hnanthe Phellandrium. 
Angelica sylvestris. 
Pastinaca sativa. 
Pyrethrum Parth » 
Matricaria Chamo ua. 
Campanula rotundifolia. 
Hyoscyamus niger. 
Verbascum Lychnitis. 
Rhinanthus Crista-galli. 
Cynoglossum officinale. 
Atriplex Babingtoni. 
Beta maritima. 
Salsola Kali. 
Polygonum lapathifolium. 
Allium ursinum. 
Potamogeton natans. 
Equisetum sylvaticum. 
,, Aucuparia. 
Eryngium maritimum. 
Pimpinella magna. 
(To be continued.) 
Hints on a new Character in Ferns. By Rev. W. A. Lricuton, 
BAL BS: Ee 
The interesting paper of Mr. Wollaston, on the spores of Las- 
trea Filix-mas, in the ‘ Phytologist,’ page 171, recalled to my 
mind that in 1842 I busied myself in making dissections and 
microscopical drawings of as many British Ferns as, at that time, 
I could conveniently obtain in a living state. The professed ob- 
ject of my investigation was the endeavour to discover the male 
organs of fertilization; for which purpose I minutely examined 
every portion of the frond in every stage I could procure it— 
young, old, rolled up, and unrolled, but of course without de- 
tecting the direct object of my research, which it is well known 
now that other investigators have succeeded in finding in an- 
other phase of the plant’s development; nevertheléss many sin- 
gular and interesting sights presented themselves to my eyes, 
particularly im the unrolled state of the fronds, where many 
organs existed in such close proximity to the young sori that at 
first sight they had every appearance of being the male organs. 
