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dance. Of these the most rare that I noticed were Dry- 
opteris filiz-mas, Polystichum Braunii, and Dryopteris 
Goldiana. One very beautiful frond of the Goldie fern, of 
a variety or form unknown to me, having unusually large 
and deeply lobed pinnules, was found growing at some 
distance from others of its kind. Unfortunately the rest of 
the foliage had in some way been destroyed, and only this 
one frond, a sterile one, remained. 
Retdniing to the road through the field before men- 
tioned, I stopped to dig up a few of the more abundant 
_ species for my fern bed at home. Among them was one 
| which, not having at that time heard of the new hybrid, 
I took at first for a peculiar form of Dryopteris marginalis. 
True, its habit was upright and rigid, and the color 
not the usual bluish green. I fancied, indeed, that it had 
a faded look, perhaps from too great exposure to light, 
_ for it grew in the brightest sunshine, the hillside field 
- facing southeast and being almost quite bare of trees. 
& odging the thick rootstock 
- from where it grew under a heavy pile of stones, but 
finally it was secured in good condition. 
On my return to the hotel the the large fern was ee 
a ‘parasily planted in a box, and then at last I examined it 
2 ge and found it to be no rue ‘marginalis but a hy- 
Tid. 
oo - part ticularly graceful, it” was nevertheless — 
=. Det p pire, plant. The fronds, about a dozen of 
m, were almost. upright, . gee in a circle, and 
i _outwar sad were gf three 
