SESSION 1908-1909. 



I,— NOTES ON LASTEEA EEMOTA {MOORE). 



By Mr W. B. BOYD, Corresponding Member. 



{Read Nov. 25, 1908.) 



The plant exhibited was found by me at a meeting of the 

 Scottish Alpine Botanical Club on the 9th August 1894, on 

 the side of Loch Lomond, between Tarbet and Ardlui, and has 

 been ever since a matter of considerable discussion among fern 

 specialists as to its origin. The only British plant of what is 

 : understood to be the true Lastrea remota was first observed by 

 M Isaac Huddart and Mr F. Clowes, growing in company 

 witn Lastrea Filix-mas vars. incisa and abbreviata, L. spinu- 

 losa, and L. dilatata, and about five miles from limestone rocks, 

 where L. rigida is abundant. This was in the neighbourhood 

 of Lake Windermere, in Westmorland (Mr F. Frederick 

 Clowes in 'The Phytologist,' 1860, p. 227). ISTow as this 

 plant was different from all others growing in its vicinity, and 

 still had a certain resemblance to both L. Filix-mas and L. 

 spinulosa, it was thought by judges to be a hybrid between 

 the two. The plant on the table was found growing in the 

 immediate vicinity of L. Filix-mas var. paleacea and L. dilatata, 

 but I do not remember of any plants of L. spinulosa being 

 near the spot. As this plant was first identified and de- 

 scribed in Britain as Lastrea remota (Braun) by Thomas 

 Moore, Esq., F.L.S., it will be well to know what he says 

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