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blished. I therefore add a list of those only which are best 

 known, and easily procured, rather than of kinds almost 

 unknown, and which it would be difficult to obtain ; as it may 

 be useful to those who have inclination and means to begin a 

 collection. 



Connected with this subject, permit me to add a few observ- 

 ations. Every opportunity should be taken by those who 

 have distant or foreign correspondents, to engage them in col- 

 lecting the fronds of ferns. It is an easy task: they are light 

 of carriage, and may prove, when sent to a friend or cultivator, 

 an acceptable and useful present. They may be raised from 

 seed with the greatest ease. Their natural habitat may be 

 imitated either in hot-houses, or in the open garden ; whether 

 inhabitants of the dry or moist rock, the shady wood, or open 

 plain ; whether found growling on sound or decayed timber, 

 on clay, loam, or decomposed vegetable earth ; all these sub- 

 stances can be transferred with the plants, and placed in such 

 parts of the flower-garden as will correspond with their re* 

 spective habits and character. 



In a collection of ferns in a garden, they should always be 

 accompanied with the other plants of cryptogamous descrip- 

 tion usually found united with them in their native bed : of 

 such are various mosses, lichens, &c. 



List op Bbitisii Ferns. 



Ophioglossum vulgatum. Aspidium Oreopteris. 



Botrychium Lunaria. Aspidium cristatum. 



Osmunda regalis. Aspidium dilatatum. 



Grammitis Ceterach. Aspidium lobatum. 



Pteris aquilma. Aspidium J^elix mas. 



Pteris crfspa. Aspidium fontanum. 



/Scolop^ndrium officinarum. Aspidium rhas'ticum. 



iScolopendrium crlspum, var. ^splenium Prichomanes, 



iScolop^ndrium multifidum. Jsplenium viride. 



/Scolopendrium undulatum. ^splenium marinum. 



Poly])6dium vulgare. ^splenium septentrionale. 



Polypodium cambricum. ^splenium alter nifolium. _ 



Polypodium Phegopteris. ^splenium J?uta-muraria. 



Polypodium ZJryopteris. ^splenium Jdiantum-nigrum. 



Bl^chnum boreale, /Isplenium lanceolatum. 



Polypodium calcareum. Prichomanes brevisetum. 



Woodsk hyperborea. Jdiantum Capillus Veneris. 



Aspidium aculeatum. Hymenophjllum tunbri'^reose. 



Aspidium spinulosum. ' * Aspidium bulbiferum. 



Aspidium Phelypteris * Aspidium marginale. 



Aspidium irriguum. * Woodwardia radicans. 



Aspidium Pelix femina. * Onoclea Struthiopteris. 



Aspidium dentatum. * Osmunda cinnamomea. 



Aspidium fragile. * ^diantum pedatum. 



Aspidium regium. * Aspidium patens. 



Aspidium ionchitis. * Osmunds Claytontanff. 



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