THE COTTAGE GARDENER AND COUNTRY GENTLEMAN'S COMPANION. —August 20, 1850. 377 
WEEKLY CALENDAR. 
1 Day of 
' Month. 
Day of 
Week. 
AUG. 26—SEPT. 1, 1856. 
Weather nt 
Barometer. 
Alt LONl 
Thermo. 
JON IN 1855. 
Wind.! Ham in 
| Inches. 
Sun 
Rises. , 
Sun 
Sets. 
Moon 
It. & S. 
Moon’s 
Age. 
Clock 
af. Sun. 
Day of 
Year. 
26 
To 
Pr. Albert born, 1819. 
30.047—29.775 
74-39 
N. I — 
5 a 5 
26 
1 
32 
239 
27 
W 
Arctia lubricipeda. 
29-983—29.878 
77-49 
S.W. — 
7 
50 
0 59 
27 
1 
15 
240 
28 
Til 
Arctia phoeorrluea. 
2J).858—29.777 
81—44 
8.W. — 
8 
54 
2 16 
28 
0 
57 
24! 
29 
F 
Arctia V. nigra. 
30.025—29.991 
75—42 
w. 
10 
52 
3 33 
29 
0 
40 
242 
30 
s 
Callimorpha Jacobeie, 
30.254—30.250 
72—40 
N.E. — 
11 ; 
50 
sets. 
© 
0 
22 
243 
31 
Sort 
15 Sunday after Trinity, 
30.210—30.181 
78—41 
E. — 
13 
47 
7 a 18 
1 
0 
3 
244 
1 
M 
The satellite Moth. 
30.346—30.282 
68 — 45 
N.E. 1 — 
14 
45 
7 27 
2 
0 
15 
245 
Meteorology of the W eek. At Chiswick, from observations during the last twenty-eight years, the average highest and lowest 
temperatures of these days are 51.5°, and 49-4 , respectively. The greatest heat, 85°, occurred on the 1st, in 1843 ; and the lowest cold, 32°, on 
the 29th, in 1850. During the period 120 days were line, and on 76 rain fell. 
LASTR.E'A FCENISE’CII. 
Mr. Charles Johnson in wishing that the specific name I 
of recurvum, givon it by some botanists, had been more 
generally preferred, for recurvum, curled-back, well points 
out the peculiarly crisped appearance of this Fern. 
It has been called Aspidium dilatatum var. concavum ; 
Aspulium recurvum; Aspidium spinulosum, var.; and 
Lophodium fcenisecii. In English it is the Hay-scented 
Buckler Fern, and Recurved Prickly-toothed Fern. 
Root large and tufted, rootlets numerous. The Fronds 
rise from the tuft in a circle; they are bright pale green, 
with the leaflets very much curled, or crisped upward, 
rendering their upper surface concave. The stem curves 
downward gracefully, the lower half being without 
leaflets, but thickly clothed with palo, semi-transparent 
scales; these scales are long, narrow, and usually 
jagged. The general outline of the leafleted portion is j 
a long triangle. The leaflets in full-grown plants are j 
constantly three-leafited (tripinnate) at the lower part of 
the frond, and of the lower leaflets generally; the ; 
leafits and lobes of the upper parts of the leaflets are } 
all finely toothed, each tooth ending in a short spine, 
giving it a crisped, irregular, yet graceful appearance, 
which, combined with the concave form of the leaflets, 
enables it at once to be identified. On the under 
surface of the leaflets are numerous stalkless glands, 
producing the secretion which gives forth the hay-like 
smell to which we have already alluded. The fructifi¬ 
cation is regularly scattered over the under surface of 
each leaflet, each mass beiug covered with a roundish 
kidney-shaped membrane ( indusium ), having a jagged 
edge, and sometimes having on the edge a few of the 
glands just noticed. 
This Fern is not generally found in the British 
Islands, but it occurs abundantly on the western side of 
England, as in Cornwall and Devon, and less plentifully, 
in Somersetshire, Sussex, Cumberland, at Ripon, Settle 
and Scarborough, in Yorkshire, and in North Lanca¬ 
shire. In Wales, in Anglesea, Glamorganshire, and 
Merionethshire. In Scotland it is found in the East 
and West Highlands, and in the Northern and Western I 
Islands. 
It occurs sometimes in dryish situations, but is usually ! 
fouud in moist, sheltered, woody places, and on the 
banks beneath hedges. 
We think that this Fern was first discovered and 
particularised by Dr. Johnson, tho editor of the second 
Edition of “ Gerarde’s Herbal,” and that in that work : 
(page 1130) he describes it as “the Male Fern not , 
branched ; with narrow, separated, deeply - toothed 
leafits” {Filial mas non ramosa jnnnulis angustis, raris, 
profundc dentatis). Bo this as it may, his name-sake, 
Mr. Charles Johnson, says, “ In 1821, I first noticed it 
in the vicinity of Dolgelly, and again in tho Yale of 
Festiniog (in Merionethshire and Glamorganshire), and 
though marking its peculiarity, supposed it, in my in¬ 
experience, to be a form of Aspidium dilatatum of 
Smith. It had not then received name or notice among 
recent botanists, though, apparently, referred to both by 
No. CCCCXIII. Von. XYI. 
