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than the aposporous offspring, being about four feet high 

 by over two in breadth. 



Curiously enough, although more than thirty years have 

 elapsed since the writer made the discovery in question, it 

 was only a few years back that, thanks to Miss Jones, Col. 

 Jones's daughter, he became the happy possessor of a division 

 of the original find, which has inspired this paper, and thus 

 enabled him personally to establish by comparison its 

 superiority in size and form to the many plants existing in 

 collections, all of which we believe originate from the 

 batch first raised aposporously in 1883-4, an d which Col. 

 Jones distributed liberally amongst his friends. In con- 

 clusion, the writer cannot refrain from expressing his 

 gratification that it is his good fortune to have been closely 

 associated so long with the gentle dame of our pseudo 

 romance, and to have been enabled by such association 

 to materially enhance not only her reputation, but in some 

 degree his own, and in so doing thus ending the romance 

 on the most satisfactory lines of mutual benefit possible. 

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



RECENT ACQUISITIONS. 



SCOL. V. TRANSVERSO-CRISTATUM ROWLANDS. 



From our member, Mr. Rowlands, we have received a 

 frond of an extra fine form of this Hartstongue just found 

 by him in Dorset, near Corfe Castle. It has bold sub- 

 sagittate fronds, bearing heavy twin crests, which cross 

 each other transversely, whence the name. The type is 

 not new, but the " find " is so extra well developed as to 

 justify the addition of the finder's name. 

 Scol. v. plumosum Perry's form. A.M. Amos Perry. 

 Scol. v. crispum speciosum. F.C.C. W. B. Cranfield. 



These two are both fine acquisitions, which are more 

 particularly alluded to in our present issue under " The 

 Hartstongue Fern." 



