In the § Plain and Easy Account, 
p- 29. 
“ Difficult of cultivation. 
Prefers to be kept moderately 
dry, cool at root,* and with fresh 
air and rich vegetable soil. 
The root to be transplanted in 
spring, while yet dormant.” 
152 
In the “complicate classification” 
of Mr. Moore, p. 217. 
“ Difficult plant to get esta- 
blished under cultivation. 
It rather prefers to be kept mo- 
derately dry, cool at the root, and 
where there is a circulation of 
pure air. It prefers rich vege- 
table soil. 
The roots should be trans- 
planted in the spring, when dor- 
mant.” 
The similarity of these passages is of high interest, and, of course, 
is purely accidental, for no allusion whatever is made by the “ plain 
and easy” author to his having borrowed this information from 
another. Those who chance to read the third edition of Newman’s 
Ferns, will find it stated that Botrychium is the easiest of all ferns to 
cultivate ; that it must be kept entirely without rich vegetable “soil; ” 
and that it must be taken up when the frond has attained its full ex- 
pansion at Midsummer: the “ plain and easy” author, as well as the 
“complicate” one, have totally forgotten the incontestible fact, that 
they could not find the plant “ while yet dormant.” 
We are glad to announce that ‘ A Fasciculus of Dried Specimens 
of the Hieracia of North Yorkshire and Teesdale,’ by our correspon- 
dent, Mr. J. G. Baker, will shortly be issued. The following is a list 
of species: —H. Pilosella, Z., aurantiacum, Z., iricum, Fries, palli- 
dum, Biv., murorum, L., cesium, Fries, and var. nemorum, Fries, 
H. vulgatum, fries, and vars. maculatum, Sm., medium, Fries, 
maculatum-sylvaticum, Sm., sylvaticum, Sm., H. gothicum, Fries, 
tridentatum, Fries, and var. nemorosum, H. umbellatum, Z., croca- 
tum, Frtes, and var. angustatum, Fries, H. boreale, Fries, and var. 
nemorosum. 
* Probably because “ this plant is hot and drie in the third degree.’—£d. Phytol. 
