126 Petty: North Lanes. Varieties of Polypodium vulgare. 



mens, some very good. The numbers were then looked up and 

 a census taken. Unfortunately the working- out proves nothing- : 

 22 came out S.S.E., the next being- 17 West, the lowest S. and 

 S.W. with one each. All the points of the compass were there 

 — it had been boxed ! The consolation of possessing- so many 

 specimens was little against the hope of proving something. 

 No specimens were gathered in deep shade. By the end of 

 1886 other matters interested me more, and the wild polypodies 

 and the theory were matters of the past. Unfortunately many 

 of the best specimens were given away or used for seed, 

 especially crenatum and cornutum, and their places in the one 

 hundred taken by, in some cases, wretched fronds. I am not 

 quite sure that I took the best method of procedure, but it 

 seemed the simplest, and that usually is the better way. 



The list below contains what I collected in the neighbour- 

 hood of Broughton-in-Furness, Woodland, and a few over the 

 Duddon in S. W. Cumberland. What has been chronicled pre- 

 viously which I can find in print are given first, but there must 

 be more, for out of the large number of people interested in 

 fern varieties, some certainly print lists of what they have 

 gathered in North Lancashire. The number of named varieties 

 is somewhere about 90, but many of these are true gardeners' 

 raisings and not wild. 



1859. Moore and Bradbury. Nat. Print.- Ferns (8vo ed.), 

 I. 68. Var. semilaceriun Link. Ulverston, Miss E. Hodgson ; 

 and repeated 1865. Lowe, Native Ferns, I. 28. He also gives 

 Aciitum Stansfieldii Lowe, near Cark, Stansfield ; and varie- 

 gatum Barnes, near Cark, Stansfield. 



1869. Aspland's Guide to Grange, 108. Anthony Mason 

 gives the following varieties, without authorities or localities : — 

 aciitum, coriaceo-bifidum, cristatum, interruptum, tobatum, 

 obtusum, pulcherrimum, serratum. 



1872. Linton's Ferns, ed. 2, by J. M. Barnes, pp. 22-23, has 

 a tabular statement including both N. Lanes, and Westmorland. 



acuto-bifidum Wollaston. Stainton, 1858, J. M. Barnes. 

 aurltum Moore. No locality or finder; 'rather common.'- 

 bifidum Francis. No locality or finder ; 'rather common.' 

 b if id o-mu ltifid u m Mapp. Near Grange, 1869. . Found by 

 a boy. 



crenatum Moore. No locality or finder. 



curtum Wollaston. Crake Valley, 1870, J. K. Hodgson. 



den latum Monkm. No locality or finder. 



Naturalist, 



