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least. Where can the spores have come from to get there?” I 
saw it on the church on a future visit, and recorded the fact in 
The Naturalist for 1896, p. 327. The nearest local-areal habitat 
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find a fitting nidus—one in a village, on the decaying head of a 
pollard willow, where it could obtain moisture and humus to- 
There is a rough, often very heavily over-eaten, pasture in 
my native parish, Bottesford, which I have known intimately and 
botanised in for forty years and more. It is rather boggy in parts, 
as it is old turf formed on Liassic Sandy Glacial Gravel super- 
the parallel followers of man are too frequently treated, we should 
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In the cases given, and I could add others from my notes, it is 
practically demonstrable that they were not sown either purposely 
or by pure chance byman. We must fall back on the percentage 
of experience in such cases. Shunners of man are rarely sown b 
least interest in ferns, or who had sufficient knowledge of them to 
plant one on a decaying pollard willow-head. Who, also, if he had 
the source of the supply of the fluid might be stopped any day by 
the thoughtfulness of the parish sexton? Who would purposely 
