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The Perns 



14. Lomaria or Blechnum spicant — Hard Fern. 



15. Pteris aquilina — Bracken. 



16. Osmunda regalis — Flowering Fern. 



17. Ophioglossum vulgatum —Common Adder's Tongue. 



18. lusitanicum — Dwarf ,, 



This list differs from that published in Professor Ansted's 

 " Channel Islands " in the following particulars : — 



1. — Lastrea JEmula is omitted. From the mention made 

 of it in the book, I conclude that a single specimen only is 

 supposed to have been found. This would not justify its 

 being included in the list, especially as the root might have 

 been planted out. There is danger also of mistaking for it a 

 plant of Lastrea Dilatata. I have never observed it in 

 Guernsey, nor heard of any other instance of its occurrence. 



2. — I have also omitted " Botrychium Lunaria." This is 

 a small fern and is easily overlooked, and would be extremely 

 local in its appearance ; so that it may yet be found in the 

 island. I have found the plant freely in Derbyshire and should 

 recognise it were I to meet with it ; I have heard that it used 

 to be found, but I suggest that unless guaranteed specimens 

 are produced it should be omitted from lists published by this 

 society. 



3. — I have added " Gymnogramma leptophylla," the 

 slender Gymnogram, or Jersey fern, which according to the 

 authorities is abundant in Southern Europe ; a Guernsey lady, 

 member of this society, has shown me a specimen from Switzer- 

 land ; it grows as far north as J ersey, but not in Great 

 Britain or Ireland, I found it in Guernsey first in 1877. 



It is an annual and very small, the fronds, which are about 

 three inches in length, begin to develop until about Christmas, 

 and the whole plant dies soon after Midsummer, so that it may 

 be passed over even by a close observer. 



During Easter week, 1878, I visited Jersey with the 

 expressed intention of becoming acquainted with the J ersey 



