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corals, not less beautiful than geologically interesting. It would 

 show that the affinity between this part of Somerset and South 

 Devon, where so many of the finer forms of Polystichwn 

 angulare have been found, is not merely superficial. Nor may 

 it be unworthy of notice that that energetic discoverer, Mr. W. 

 H. Phillips of Belfast, has proved by his researches that a certain 

 marked botanical affinity exists between the South- West of 

 England and Ireland, the North more particularly. There are 

 certain marked forms of Polystichum angulare of which single 

 plants had been found in the West of England, and which, after 

 very exhaustive researches, having never been found in any 

 other part of England, had long been classed among the forms 

 peculiar to the South-West. Yet after all this had been com- 

 fortably settled, Mr. Phillips turns up with his inconvenient 

 discoveries and unsettles everything. If there were two ferns 

 which had earned the character of having been entirely unique 

 those ferns were Polystichum angulare rotundatum, of Elworthy, 

 a Somerset form ; and Polystichum angulare acrocladon, found 

 by Mr. Mapplebeck in South Devon. Mr. Phillips produces 

 unmistakable counterparts of both. Another most rare and 

 marked form, Polystichum angulare brachiato-cristatum, which 

 long experience had seemed to have conclusively proved to 

 be peculiar to the South of England, Mr. Phillips finds in the 

 North of Ireland. It was the same with another rare and 

 beautiful form, Polystichum angulare setoso-cuneatum, of which 

 only two plants had ever before been found, one by Mr. Moly, 

 the other by Mr. Wollaston, and both in the South-West of 

 England. Also the extreme form of Polystichum angulare 

 grandiceps, two plants of which, apparently identical, had been 

 found by different people in other parts of Ireland, and was 

 found more than once by Mr. Moly in Devon. The grand form 

 of Polystichum angulare polydactylum, found by the late Rev. 

 Charles Padley in the Vale of Avoca, was long considered a 

 unique plant, until found by Colonel Jones in the South of 

 England. To these may be added the Polystichum angulare 

 divisilobum Phillips, on which Mr. G. B. Wollaston, the 



