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kindly gave me a fertile frond from an exceptionally fine 

 Polystichum. In due course, whi<jh with me genera 

 represents eleven or twelve months, the young ferns began 

 to appear. They were full of promise from the first, and 

 an agreeable amount of marked individuality gradu' 

 became apparent. There are at least three well marked 

 types, and something like ten separate varieties. Of these 

 11 Kingsmill Moore " is the most advanced, and therefore 

 the first to make its bow before the Editor. It is already 

 large and of singularly rich appearance. The surface 

 throughout undulates so markedly that the different lights 

 caused by the hills and hollows give what almost amounts 

 to a variegated effect. The " fingering," where it does 

 occur, which is in all the pinnae of some fronds and in 

 most of the pinnae of all, is profuse, and, to my e 

 graceful and ornamental. 



October, 1915. H. Kingsmill Moore. 



BRITISH FERNS OF THE FUTURE. 



As it is now some years since we wrote an article under 

 this heading, and then dealt mainly with the possibilities 

 which existed of alliances between some of the more 

 beautiful varieties of our native species with normal 

 exotics of kindred ones, such as had been effected between 

 our Polypcdium vulgare and P. glaucum in Mr. Schneider's 

 P. Schneider ianum, a short article will, we think, not be 

 out of place in connection with what has since been 

 effected. This subsequent development, however, has 

 not been to any appreciable extent due to the suggestions 

 then made with regard to hybrids, the trade having 

 apparently quite ignored them. On the other hand, b 

 ever, the selective cultivators, chiefly amateur, have been 

 so successful in the improvement of the best varieties of 

 that time through their spores, that the strictly British 



