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to Mr. Purchas for a frond from that plant, which is certainly 

 remarkable for its decidedly glandular character ; but I possess 

 other specimens which appear to connect it with the more usual 

 form of L. dilatata [L. multiflorum], particularly one from Tit- 

 terstone Clee HOls, labelled by Mr. Edwin Lees doubtfully, 

 ' Aspidium rigidum ? ' This specimen is in bad condition, but 

 better may perhaps be gathered there by some botanist, if I 

 add the direction to the spot : — ' North side, among the basalt 

 stones beneath the summit.' " — Mr. Watson, in Cyb. Brit. iii. 

 270. I have two observations to make on this extract ; the 

 first I should not thiak worth my whUe, were it not for Mr. 

 Watson's almost proverbial accuracy. 1. My having founded 

 the species on a single plant is not exactly the fact, although 

 I have probably written or said something which has led Mr. 

 Watson to this conclusion. My first acquaintance with the 

 species was through Mr. Bennett and his son, who kindly gave 

 me a magnificent living plant, and I cannot find any allusion to 

 rarity in my correspondence with those zealous botanists relat- 

 ing to this species : moreover, Mr. Bennett has it in his garden 

 at Brockham : and the dried fronds I have examined appear 

 to have been gathered from many plants. Mr. Purchas also 

 speaks of "some young plants." I think I am thus exculpated 

 from the charge of having founded the species on a single plant. 

 2. During the past summer I visited the Titterstone Clee, and 

 examined the specimens of L. multiflorum which abound in the 

 locality indicated, but cannot refer them to glandulosum. 



The Forest of Dean and its neighbourhood remains an un- 

 doubted locality; and Epping Forest, in Essex, must be added. 

 Mr. Doubleday has most kindly given me two very large plants 

 from the vicinity of Epping, and has others growing in his gar- 

 den. The Epping plants are of great age, of almost gigantic 

 size, and perfectly characteristic in aU respects : in my commu- 

 nications with Mr. Doubleday, I find Nothing to indicate that 

 the plant is uncommon in his neighbourhood. 



Radicles very numerous, large, long, extremely tenacious, 

 and nearly black : caudex very large, solid, and long-enduring ; 



