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life a chance by enabling it to meet with fresh soil and so 

 develop bulbils and roots and start existence afresh. 

 Happily, thanks to Mr. Cranfield's skill and assiduity, the 

 vast majority of the old stumps responded to this treat- 

 ment by forming buds and bulbils, with the result that at 

 present there are hundreds of Mr. Moly's finds figuring as 

 well-established typical plants of great beauty which other- 

 wise had been lost to the world entirely. From some of 

 these, too, offspring have been raised from the spores, and 

 these in many cases not only promise to be, but actually 

 are, the most beautiful forms we possess of the particular 

 section to which they belong far surpassing their beautiful 

 parents. Strolling through such a gathering of the 

 choicest of the choice as we find under these fostering 

 conditions one can but wish that we could be accompanied 

 by the spirits of the old pioneers such as Moly, Col. Jones, 

 Dr. Fox, Dr. Wills, Wollaston and others, and see their 

 amazement and joy at beholding, not only their partic- 

 ular pets and acquaintances in good and appreciative 

 hands, but also the new developments which have been 

 derived from their discoveries such as the u superbum " 

 Athyria, the gracillimum and plumosum " pulcherrimums " 

 and some of Mr. Cranfield's own derivatives from the 

 Moly finds. 



Chas. T. Druery, V.M.H., F.L.S. 



FRAGRANCE OF POLYPODIUM CALCAREUM 



(Smith). 



[P. ROBERTIANUM (HOFFMANN).] 



Our Editor has pointed out to me that Hoffmann, in his 

 original description of this species, as quoted by Newman 

 in his " British Ferns," says M odor deb His Geranii 

 Robertiani" (i.e. a weak odour of Geranium Robertianum), 

 and it is presumably upon this characteristic that 



