24 BOTANICAL NOTES, NOTICES, AND QUERIES. [January. 



ASPLENIUM ANCEPS. 



The following is from the proceedings of the Dublin Natui'al History 

 Society (March 14th, 1856) :— 



The Chairman then called on Mr. Andrews for his paper on Madeiran 

 forms of Perns at KiUamey. — 



Ml'. Andrews said that in his review of the botany or zoology of a coun- 

 try or district he had always been desirous of tracing affinities and geo- 

 graphical distribution, and the identity of animals or plants in different 

 countries. He had fQready brought before the Society the occurrence in 

 Keny of some of the plants of Cornwall, and numerous instances of those 

 of Portugal. He now wished to draw the attention of the Society to a 

 beautiful and luxuriant form of Asjjleniimi, bearing a strong resemblance 

 to A. Trichomanes. He had obtained several of these beautiful plants 

 growing in a very sheltered and secluded spot near KiUarney, surrounded 

 by high rocks. Its peculiar habits of growth, the great lengih of the 

 raches or stipes, and the luxuriant and rich green of the fronds, struck 

 him as differing very remarkably from the more common forms of A. Tri- 

 chomanes. On referring to Hooker and Greville's beautifid work, ' Icones 

 Filicum,' t. 195, he found it to be identical with the Asplenium fallax of 

 the Eev. T. Lowe, named so by him on account of its affinities with A. 

 Trichomanes. It was however previously found by Mr. Masson, and placed 

 in the Banksian Herbarium, under the name Asplenium anceps, Solander. 

 The Eev. T. Lowe, who has given many interesting details concerning the 

 plants of Madeira and Porto Santo, found this plant at an elevation of 

 2000 to 3000 feet, and at Eibieiro d'Anatado at an elevation of 4000 feet. 

 It was also found at a low elevation with Asplenium acutum. In Madeira 

 it usm-ps the place of A. Trichomanes. Mr. Andrews considered the Keny 

 \ plants to be identical with those of A. anceps of Madeii'a, and to bear the 

 } same relation to A. Trichomanes as A. acutum of Madeira does to the ordi- 

 nary form of A. Adiantiim-nigricm. 



Professor Haughton recognized this form of Pern as one which had been 

 shown to him by a policeman at Killarney, and which at the time struck 

 him as differing in many respects from the ordinary form of Aspl. Tri- 

 chomanes. 



Miss Gifford, Minehead, Somerset, requests that her name may be in- 

 serted in the list of botanists desirous of exchanging specimens of British 

 plants. 



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 F.L.S. ; HcAvett C. Watson, F.L.S. ; E. Percival Wright ; Isabella Gif- 

 ford; David Moore, A.L.S. ; J. E. Sowerby; H. W. ; Dr. Oswald Heer. 



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