NOTICE. 
It is particularly requested, that if any new or doubtful 
Ferns are met with by our Readers in this County, they 
would kindly send a Plant or Frond to the Rev. Gerard 
Smith, Osmaston, near Ashborne, or to Mr. W. E. Howe, 
Matlock-Bath, for examination and identification. 
Our warm thanks are due to F. Beresford Wright, Esq., 
of Osmaston Manor, for plants of Polypoclium Phegopteris, 
gathered by him in the north of the County, and figured 
in this Edition; as well as to several friends for kind 
information and specimens. The reserve of exact localities 
is forced upon us by the conviction, that to point out the 
home of a rare Fern, is the surest step to effect its eradi¬ 
cation by non-scientific hands. 
