348 PLANTS FOUND NEAR SETTLE. 
approaches nearest to L. uwliginosa, they were scanty and 
blunt, with a little slender point; but in many plants ga- 
thered in shady situations there were abundant scales, and 
these tapering to a gradual point, though still with a pale 
centre, and less strictly acuminate than in L. dilatata. 
Lastrea Filix-mas. Of this variable species the form called “ im- 
cisa” is very common about Tunbridge Wells, especially in 
shaded localities, and often presents when luxuriant an as- 
pect much resembling one of the spinulose sections of Las- 
trea; but in the Isle of Wight I have also gathered a state 
of this same “ incisa” which had all the slender and delicate 
habit of Athyrium Filix-femina or Polystichum angulare, 
while at the same time its stipes and rachis exhibited the same 
abundance of narrow reddish scales as the variety “ Borreri.” . 
This is mentioned merely to show that the copious clothing 
of scales is not necessarily an accompaniment of the trun- 
cate pinnule, though this is most usually the case. It may 
also be as well to notice here that both Lastrea Oreopteris 
and L. Thelypteris were found near Tunbridge Wells, with 
their pinnules in the first distinctly, and in the latter shghtly, 
notched or serrated; and I have often met with the same 
thing in Ceterach. 
The variety ‘“Borreri” (or paleacea) we gathered in se- 
veral localities, mostly along streams, and in somewhat peaty 
soil exposed to the light. 
Equisetum sylvaticum. Profusely by the side of the stream and 
in the wetter spots of Jack’s Wood. 
Plants found in the Neighbourhood of Settle, Yorkshire, omitting 
some of the very common ones. By Joun Winpsor, F.L.S., 
F.R.C.S., ete. 
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Mentha sativa, var. a, vulgaris (Babington). Waste ground by 
the river Ribble, below the Long stream. 
Mentha sativa, var. 8. M. rubra (Bab.). By Giggleswick Beck. 
Waste ground by the river Ribble, below the Long stream. 
Mentha sativa, var. y. M. gentilis (Bab.). Waste ground below 
Birkbeck’s Weir; and also below the Long stream, ete. 
