THE COTTAGE GARDENER AND COUNTRY GENTLEMAN'S COMPANION.— September 0, 1856. 413 
WEEKLY CALENDAR. 
Day of 
Month. 
Day of 
Week. 
SEPTEMBER 9—15, 1856. 
Weather near London in 
1855. 
Sun 
Rises. 
Sun 
Sets. 
Moon 
R. & S. 
Moon’s 
Age. 
Clock 
af. Sun. 
Day of 
Year. 
Barometer. 
Thermo. 
Wind. 
llam in 
Inches. 
9 
To 
The brown-spot Pinion. 
1 30.164—30.106 
73—33 
w. 
— 
27 a 5 
27 a 6 
11 1 
10 
2 
54 
253 
10 
W 
The chestnut Moth. 
30.122—30.050 
70—36 
E. 
— 
29 
25 
morn. 
11 
3 
14 
254 
11 
Th 
The nettled chestnut Moth. 
30.055—30.051 
72-37 
N.E. 
— 
31 
22 
0 22 
12 
3 
35 
255 
12 
F 
The dark chestnut Moth. 
30.16'—30.059 
73—39 
W. 
.20 
32 
20 
1 51 
13 
3 
56 
256 
13 
S 
The black chestnut Moth. 
29.976—29.887 
69—50 
s.w. 
.28 
34 
18 
3 25 
14 
4 
17 
257 
14 
Son 
17 SUNDAY AFTER TRINITY. 
80 . 007 — 29.926 
54—45 
N.E. 
.32 
35 
16 
rises. 
© 
4 
39 
258 
15 
M 
The lemon Sallow Moth. 
j 30.093—30.090 
64—45 
S.W. 
— 
37 
13 
6 a43 
16 
5 
0 
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Meteorology of the Week. —At Chiswick, from observations during the last twenty-eight years, the average highest and lowest 
temperatures of these days are 677°, and 467°, respectively. The greatest heat, 84°, occurred on the I2th, in 1841 ; and the lowest cold, 31°, on 
the 9th, in 1851. During the period 105 days were fine, and on 91 rain fell. 
LASTED'A OREO'PTERIS. 
This has been called by botanists Aspidium odoriferutn, 
A. oreoptens, Hemestheum montanum, Lastrcea montana, 
Polypodium fragrans, P. oreopteris, P. thalypteris, P. 
montanum, and Polystichum montanum. In English it 
is known as th9 Mountain Fern, Heath Fern, Mountain 
Buckler Fern, Heath Shield Fern, and Heath Polypody. 
The uniform reference in these names t,o “ Mountain ” 
and “ Heath ” indicates the places which it frequents. 
Root, large, black, scaly, and tufted; with numerous 
stout, matted rootlets. Fronds several, growing in a 
circle, between two and three feet high, erect, spear¬ 
head shaped in general outline. Stem covered with 
fine hairs on the upper part, and slightly with pale 
brown scales at the bottom; pale green and deeply 
channelled in front. Leaflets extending nearly to the 
bottom of the stalk, almost opposite, stalkless, deeply 
lobed, so as nearly to form leafits; lobes bluntly pointed, 
smooth, except the midrib, which is downy. Underside 
sprinkled with shining, yellowish, resinous globules, 
; yielding a grateful scent. Fructification in a row near 
the edge of each lobe, and when ripe the round masses 
nearly run together, forming a brown beaded line close 
to the edge. The cover ( indusium) of each mass is thin, 
white, kidney-shaped, but almost circular, and soon 
shrivelling up. 
It is usually found upon mountain heaths, but it has 
been found also in shady woods, where the soil is moist. 
In England it has been gathered at Old Foot’s Well, 
Bromsgrove, in Worcestershire ; near Chapel Weardale 
and Darlington, Durham; at Cawsey Dean, near New¬ 
castle; at Keswick and near Lodore Waterfall, in Cum¬ 
berland ; by the Tees; near Richmond, and in woods at 
Castle Howard, in Yorkshire; on Coleshill Heath and 
Corley, in Warwickshire ; near Warrington ; on Dethick 
Moor and near Riley, in Derbyshire; in the Isle of 
Man; on Dallington Heath, near Northampton; on the 
north side of Shotover Hill, in Oxfordshire; on Oxton 
and Eddingley Bogs, in Nottinghamshire, and at 
Hartswell, near Farnsfield; at Conham and Leigh 
Woods, near Bristol, in Somersetshire; at Bradwell, in 
Suffolk; in Sussex; on Bailey’s Hill, between Brasted 
and Tunbridge, in Kent; and near Southampton. 
In Scotland, at Glen Isla, in Forfarshire; in Suther- 
laudsliire; on the banks of Loch Tay; in Aberdeen¬ 
shire ; and at the foot of Craig Chailleach. 
In Wales, near Wrexham, in Denbighshire; at Llau- 
berris and Nant Gwynedd, in Caernarvonshire. 
In Ireland, in Powerscourt Deer Park, and Waterfall, 
Mangerton Mountain; Lough Corril, in Galway; and 
elsewhere. 
This very beautiful and easily distinguished Fern is 
first mentioned by Ray as a native of this country. He 
notices it in the Appendix to the second edition of his 
Synopsis Methodica StirpiumBritannicarum as “ a variety 
of the common Male Fern observed by Petiver on Duns- 
more Heath, near Rugby, in the county of Warwick;” 
No. CCCCXV. Vol. XVI. 
