BRITISH FERNS. 
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however, it has failed to yield a crested form, unless that 
mysterious Fern A. Luddemannianum belong to the species. 
Name 
II here Found 
or Raised. 
Finder or Raiser and 
Date. 
Descriptu n. 
Admirabile 
— 
E. J. Lowe (r) 
Very large form. 
Cornubiense 
I. T a}lc 
Tievethick (1SCS) 
Plumose <i la Farleyense. A 
splendid form. 
Daphnites 
E. J. Lowe ( 1 ) 
Erect fronds, crowded large 
pinnae, veiy distinct, some- 
times proliferous on edges. 
Fcotii .. 
County Clare . 
Foot 
Very large pinnules. 
Grande.. 
— 
. 
A dwarf imbricate dense 
Imbricatum 
. — 
E. J. Lowe(i) 
form, something like Cor- 
nubiense, proliferous on 
sites of sori. 
Magnificum 
. County Clare . 
— 
A foliose variety. 
ALLOSORUS CR1SPUS (THE PARSLEY FERN). 
ALTHOUGH this Fern has only afforded one variety, a very nicely 
crested one, and that is, unfortunately, lost in cultivation, it is 
too pretty to ignore. In hilly districts we find it sometimes 
very abundant, especially on the slopes of rocky debris, weathered 
down from higher levels, and in the vicinity of such stations it fills 
the crevices of stony dykes with its handsome tufts of frondage. 
It is deciduous, and has its spores on somewhat contracted 
fronds, which, however, are thrice divided, on same plan as the 
leafier barren ones. Its popular name indicates its somewhat 
Parsley-like appearance, the barren fronds being crispy. It is 
easy to establish in a garden (it objects to close culture, as a child 
of the hills should do) provided we remember the nature of its 
habitat and imitate this as far as possible. Our successful plan 
is to excavate a hole in a bed facing north, and make a station 
of peat and loam, in which we plant the clump. We then 
scatter a spadeful of stones and gravel on the top of it, burying 
the crown but not the fronds, and finally take a large piece of 
rock or brick burr and dump this on the south side, all but on 
the crown of the Fern. We then give it a thorough drenclrng 
and leave it alone. The Fern so treated persuades itself that 
this is another rock avalanche from above, to which it is accus- 
tomed, and very speedily we shall see it pushing its fresh 
fronds through the gravel and making itself quite at home, until 
in a week or two, in the growing season, it completes a fresh and 
permanent clump. Once so established it is good for all time, 
even in a London garden. 
