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HARDY FEKNS. 
be a mild form of lonchitidioides. The pinnules 
do not lap over each other ; the habit of the Fern 
is redinate and flabb}^, instead of firm and erect. 
It is a young plant, but I fancy I have named it 
rightly. 
The Scolopendrium vulgare grows plentifully in 
Warwickshire, but I have seldom met with any of 
its many varieties there. About Fillongley it may 
be found with its long waving fronds measuring 
nearly three-quarters of a yard. When the snow 
hangs in rich wreaths about the hedges in the 
dear woodlands, and all nature around seems dead 
and shrivelled, hidden beneath its snow-white 
veil — under the friendly shelter of the hedge they 
have made their home, the Scolopendriums hold 
high revel in their brightest suit of green, laughing 
at winter's icy touch, knowing it has no power to 
reach the warm sap that flows beneath their thick 
coats. 
The woodlands of Warwickshire have a charm 
that belongs only to themselves, and one that 
lingers about them through every season of the 
