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"Mr. Whitwell, but I learn from him that his plant met with 

 an accident from a chance stone thrown by a boy and 

 consequently perished. There is, therefore, only a single 

 crown of this plant now surviving. I am glad to say it is 

 doing well, although much smaller than when the 

 photograph was taken, which was before the first division. 



F. W. Stansfield. 



SOME RECENT WILD FINDS. 



Notwithstanding the difficult conditions as to travelling 

 and the lack of leisure produced by the war, new finds 

 continue to be made by members of the Society and 

 othars, sometimes in the most unexpected places. East 

 Anglia has not hitherto been considered to be productive 

 Fern country, but Mr. Charles Henwood, while staying at 

 Cromer in the autumn of 19 14, went for a walk with a 

 lady friend and they admired the luxuriant growth of 

 Polypodium vulgar e which lined some of the lanes. The 

 lady (Miss Scott) re narked that one of the plants was of a 

 " different colour " from the rest. Mr. Henwood then saw 

 that it differed not only in colour but in form as well, and 

 was in fact one of the plumose or " Cambricum " section. 

 It was extracted from the wall, in which it was growing, 

 with some difficulty and was sent by post to Mr. Henwood, 

 senior, who received it in a dried up and almost moribund 

 condition. He revived it by dint of extreme care, and it 

 is now (1917) a fine plant and turns out to be very near 

 the old Cambricum, from which it differs in being slightly 

 denser although not approaching to Prestonii in this respect. 

 The following year Mr. C. Henwood re-visited the place 

 and extracted another scrap from the old habitat. He was 

 also successful in finding, in the neighbourhood, a very 

 thoroughly crested variety of the same species. It is very 

 near to the old cristatum, and is not yet quite sufficiently 



