j[8 BRITISH FERN 



XXVIII 



Lastrea pseudo-mas, to/', revolvens (IVo//.) 

 Mr. F. Clowes, Windermere. Westmoreland. 1868. 



1 ft. 



It is remarkable that this very distinct variety should have been 

 unconsciously introduced into a fernery (that of Mrs. Taylor at 

 Iffotsholme Farm, Troutbeck Bridge, Windermere). " She 

 wished," Mr. Clowes writes, "the gardener to ornament with 

 ferns a sort of paved bank near the garden ; he got a lot of ferns 

 anywhere and this was one of them." It was there first noticed 

 by Mr. Clowes, who adds that it was then a fairlv tall-growing 

 plant, — at least 2 ft. high, — but since its division it has adopted a 

 much more dwarf habit, which as far as can be yet judged of, is 

 shared bv its seedlings. 



