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he has added two species to onr native flora, namely, Salix 

 Boydii and Sagina Boydii (Bach., White). 



His remains were interred in the family burying ground 

 within the precincts of Melrose Abbey. 



OUR FRONTISPIECE. 



POLYSTICHUM ANGULARE DIVISILOBTJM FALCATUM, MOLV. 



The illustration is from a frond grown while the plant was 

 still in Mr. Moly's possession, about 1886. The sub- varietal 

 name of laxum was originally given by Mr. Wollaston to this 

 form but Mr. Moly was always dissatisfied with that name 

 and, when he sent the plant to me, he asked that it should 

 be re-named. The sweeping sickle-shaped pinnae and 

 pinnules being by far the most prominent and noticeable 

 character I called it divisilobum falcatum, by which title it 

 has ever since been known. Unfortunately when the plant 

 left Dorsetshire it failed to keep up the falcate character 

 so far as the pinnae were concerned, although retaining it 

 fully in the pinnules. As grown by Mr. Moly it was one of 

 the most striking of British ferns, surpassing even P. aculea- 

 tum pulcherrimum in the magnificent upward sweep of the 

 pinnae. Probably a return to the genial and bracing air 

 of its native climate would result in its reversion to its original 

 character. In any case it is one of the most beautiful 

 divisilobes ever found. The original plant is now r in the 

 possession of Mr. Smithies. Many seedlings have been 

 distributed. I suspect that Mr. Cranfield's falcato-decom- 

 positum, obtained from Mr r Moly, is a seedling from this. 



F. W. S. 



