is also reproduced as it appeared in " The occasional 

 paper of the British Pteridological Society," No. i, 1875. 

 We are sure that all our Members will feel, with the 

 Editor, a deep sense of gratitude to Mr. Cranfield for his 

 kindness. 



The Editor. 



OUR FRONTISPIECE. 



POLYPODIUM DRYOPTERIS PLUMOSUM. 



Mr. T. G. H. Eley kindly sends the photo reproduced 

 as our frontispiece, together with the following note. We 

 give here also a photo of the normal form to shew the 

 great difference and increased beauty (p. 4). 



Mr. Herbert Stansfield recently favoured me with a 

 letter in which he referred to his astonishment and delight 

 when he first saw the Polypodium dvyoptevis plumosum in 

 my place at Furness Abbey, and how, after I had taken 

 the plant to his Sale Nurseries, " he made it his first duty 

 each morning to feast his eyes on the rare charms of that 

 new and beautiful variety of P. dvyopteris. 1 ' I have, at his 

 suggestion, had it photographed, and am sending you a 

 copy with these notes, and I should be glad if you could 

 find a place in the " Fern Gazette" for them. Mr, 

 Stansfield, together with our much appreciated Editor, 

 "Sir. Cranfield, and myself (also possibly Dr. Stansfield 

 and "Six. T. E. Henwood) have raised a number of 

 sporelings from the original plant, and I hope, seeing that 

 it is a good breeder, still further varieties will result. If 

 our Editor has his usual luck he should come out with 

 something startling. As stated by me in the " British 

 Fern Gazette," Vol. 2, No. 22, December, 1914, I dis- 

 covered this fern in the garden of the late Mr. T. Christo- 

 pherson, at Row, Westmoreland. There were but two 

 very small fronds, and the plant was growing in a salmon 



