THE COTTAGE GARDENER AND COUNTRY GENTLEMAN'S COMPANION.— July I, 185C. 
WEEKLY CALENDAR. 
235 
D 
M 
Weather near London in 1855. 
Sun 
Moon 
Moon's 
Clock 
Day cf 
JULY 1-7, 1856. 
1 
Thermo. 
Wind. Rain in 
Inches. 
Barometer. 
Rises. 
Sets. 
R , & 8 , 
1 Age. 
bf. Sun. 
Year. 
1 
Tv 
Lycsena Douglas. 
30.163—30.161 
78—60 
s.w. — 
• 
49 a 3 
CD 
rt 
K 
2ml0 
29 
3 33 
183 
2 
W 
Lycsena Argus. 
30.193—30.153 
78-57 
S.W. 01 
50 
18 
sets. 
© 
3 44 
184 
3 
Th 
Lycaena Idas. 
30.181—30.082 
79—56 
N . — 
51 
17 
9 a 45 
1 
3 55 
185 
4 
F 
Lyceena Artaxerxes. 
30.191—30.100 
77—37 
N. — 
51 
17 
10 10 
2 
4 6 
186 
5 
S 
Lycaena Alsus. 
30.121—30.038 
81—38 
N.E. — 
52 
17 
10 27 
3 
4 17 
187 
6 
Son 
7 Sunday after Trinity. 
30.045—30.027 
77-44 
w. — 
53 
16 
10 41 
4 
4 27 
188 
7 
M 
Hesperia Sylvanus. 
30.079—30.064 
74—50 
E. — 
54 
16 
10 52 
5 
4 37 
189 
Meteorology of the Week. —At Chiswick, from observations during the last twenty-eight years, the average highest and lowest tem¬ 
peratures of these days are 74.9°, and 62.4°, respectively. The greatest heat, 97°, occurred on the 5th, in 1652; and the lowest cold, 37° 
on the 1st, in 1637. During the period 109 days were fine, and on 87 rain fell. 
HYMENOPHY'LLUM WILSO'NI. 
This owes its specific name to being first distinguished 
from Hymenopliyllurn Tunbridgense by Mr. W. Wilson. 
It is called H. unilaterdle by some botanists, in allusion 
to the lobes of the leaflets being on one side. We 
believe it to be the variety of II. Tunbridgense described 
by Bolton as having its “ fructification on naked fruit- 
stalks,” and which he found on rocks under Dolbadern 
Castle, near the lake of Llanberris, and on the rock- 
called Foal-foot, on Inglcborough, in Yorkshire. 
Root thread-like, brown, slightly scaly, creeping, and 
producing a few fibrous rootlets. Fronds from one to 
three inches high; stalk stiff, smooth, round, winged at 
the top. Leaflets clothe two-thirds of the stalk, dark 
green, alternate, bent-back, lobes curved downwards, 
and spreading horizontally rather than vertically as 
they do in II. Tunbridgense; lobes oblong-oval, sharply 
toothed, and on the upper side of the leaflet only. 
Fructification is placed as in II. Tunbridgense, but 
unlike that is stalked; its outer case ( involucre ) is 
egg-shaped, with swollen convex valves meeting at 
their edges. The fructification curves forward in a 
direction opposite to that in which the lobes of the leaf¬ 
lets are curved. 
In England it has been found near the waterfall 
above Ambleside; at Black Rocks of Great End, in the 
Scawfell Range, and at Scale Force near Buttermere ; 
and at Greenfield near Saddleworth, and near Silverdale. 
In Wales on Snowdon, near Llanberris Pass, and on 
the adjacent mountains, especially near Twll Du, and 
on high rocks about Nant Pbrancon, and on rocks near 
the Rhydol at a plank over a gulf of the river Pont 
Bren. Id Scotland at Finlarig Burn, near Killin, 
Perthshire, and in Argyleshire. In Ireland at Killarney, 
Slmnnafolia Mountains, Kerry Mountains, and Con- 
namara.—( Francis’s British Ferns.) 
Mr. Reeve, writing to us of its culture, says, “ The 
Hymenophyllum Wilsoni is very much like the Tun¬ 
bridgense, but of larger growth and stronger habit. 
Each of the species thrives remarkably well under the j 
treatment directed for the latter; but II. Wilsoni is not | 
adapted for artificial rockwork, as a glass of any kind ; 
continually kept upon such a structure looks very j 
unnatural; and as it could not be cultivated thereon 
with any certain success without a glass covering of 
some kind, it had better be withheld from rockwork 
altogether. Each of the species thrives remarkably well 
in the stove or greenhouse, pit or close frame; but 
whichever situation may bo chosen, the plants must be 
protected from sunshine. They are readily increased 
by division, by carefully arranging the small pieces on 
the surface of the compost directed for II. Tunbridgense. 
By keeping the whole close, moist, and warm for a short 
time, the plants will very soon establish themselves.” 
HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY OF LONDON.— 
June 24th. 
The course we have persisted in recommending—the 
course dictated by common sense—is likely to be adopted 
by this Society. The men of business, and of good Eng- 
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