DRUERY: POLYPODIUM VULGARE —_—21 
into his vasculum might eventually have enriched and 
displayed their beautiful fronds to innumerable fern 
lovers, instead of failing entirely to demonstrate their 
chatm to anyone but himself, and that only in situ. — 
_ As I am interested in varieties at any of the species which 
_ are common to Britain and the United States, I should 
be most happy to. ee living specimens of good ae 
articular! . vulgare. Pa : ) 
e old one. sidentally, I may 
+ some years ago, a Gus oaeires Lastrea thalyptects 
was found in the United States by Mrs. Puffer, and a _ 
- piece of rhizome was very kindly supplied tome. I re : 
now a large pan of it, polydactylous ee ieee 
tunately, as soon as it was well establis 
very fertile frond appeared, the only one : ae pre od 
and seizing the opportunity, I have raised a bat 
of which are replicas of the parent. A fev 
a have reverted, but two or three. 
