THE COTTAGE GARDENER AND COUNTRY GENTLEMAN’S COMPANION, February 24, 1857. 849 
WEEKLY CALENDAR. 
D 
M 
D 
W 
FEB. 24—MARCH 2, 1857. 
Weather ni 
Barometer. 
iar Lon 
Thermo. 
DON IN 
Wind. 
1856. 
Rain in 
Inches. 
Sun 
Rises. 
Sun 
Sets. 
Moon 
R.&S. 
Moon’s 
Age. 
Clock 
bf. Sun. 
Day of 
Year. 
24 
Tu 
Shrove Toes. St. Matth. 
30.558—30.362 
50—25 
S.W, 
_ 
VI 
29 a. 5 
sets. 
© 
13 
26 
55 
25 
W 
Lent begins. Ash Wed. 
30.467—30.406 
47—41 
S.W. 
— 
56 
31 
7a 3 
1 
13 
17 
50 
26 
Th 
30.369-30.314 
57—45 
w. 
01 
54 
33 
8 31 
2 
13 
7 
67 
27 
F 
30.473—30.369 
61—42 
N.W. 
— 
52 
34 
10 0 
3 
19 
56 
58 
28 
S 
30.483—30.463 
49—36 
N. 
01 
49 
36 
11 32 
4 
12 
45 
59 
1 
Stjn 
J Sunday in Lent. 
30.606—30.584 
44—40 
N.K. 
01 
VI 
V 
morn. 
5 
12 
33 
60 
2 
M 
Small Henbit (Veronica). 
30.569—30.555 
46—37 
N.E. 
— 
45 
40 
i i 
6 
12 
21 
61 
Meteorology of the Week.— At Chiswick, from observations during the last twenty-eight years, the average highest and lowest 
iperatures of these days are 44 . 5 °, and 33.5°, respectively. The greatest heat, 64°, occurred on the 28th, in 1846 ; and thelowest cold, 18°, 
on the 1st, in 1854. During the period 103 days were fine, and on 93 ram tell. 
TRICHO'MANES BREVISE'TUM. 
This has been commonly included in the genus Tri- 
chomanes, but with the various specific names of ra- 
j dicans, specipsum, Europceum, alatum, pyxidiferum , Tun- 
bridgense, var. 8, and Andrewsii. By a few botanists it 
has been called Ilymenophyllum alatum, Hymenophyllum 
Tunbridgense, y8, and Didymoglossum alatum. In English 
it is known as the Short-styled Bristle Fern, and Oup- 
Goldy-locks. 
Boot very thick, cylindrical, creeping, black, densely 
hairy, with numerous stout, scattered, branched, ver¬ 
tical rootlets. Fronds issuing singly, irregularly, from 
the upper side of the root; erect, from five to twelve 
inches high, dark, transparent green, narrow egg-shaped I 
in general outline. Stem winged, and from one-fourth j 
to one-half bare of leaflets. Leaflets with two leafits } 
at their base, and their upper portion irregularly but ! 
alternately lobed. Both leafits and lobes cut into deep, 
blunt segments. A few of the upper segments end in 
a single, imbedded, oblong, cylindrical cup, continued 
from the leaf, slightly winged at the sides. Fructifi¬ 
cation round the bottom of a little column in that cup. 
This very rare Fern is found in watery places, and on 
wet rocks. 
In England it has been found at the head of Elm 
Crag Well, at Belbank, half a mile from Bingley, York¬ 
shire. 
We are not aware that it has been found either in 
Wales or Scotland. 
In Ireland it is more common, being lound at Powers- 
court Waterfall and various parts of Kerry; on shady 
banks and rocks exposed to the spray of the waterfall 
above Turk Cottage, Killarney, growing with the equally 
rare Jungermannia Hutchinsice ; Hermitage, in the 
county of Wicklow ; Ballinhasy Glen, near Cork ; and 
Glendine, near Youghal. 
It is first mentioned as a British Fern by Dillenius 
in the third edition of Ray’s Synopsis, published in 1724. 
He states that it was found by Mr. Richardson at Bel¬ 
bank, and it has been found there since. The copper 
plates given by Dillenius establish the identity beyond 
any doubt, even if his description were not sufficient 
for doing so. Filix humilis repens, foliis pellucidis et 
splendentibus, caule alato (Dwarf Creeping Fern, with 
transparent and shining leaves, and with winged stem). 
This Fern, Mr. W. Reeve informs us, is one of the 
more delicate of the British Ferns. When successfully 
grown it is one of the most interesting of the smaller 
species. It is useless to attempt to cultivate it upon an 
exposed situation, it being so partial to a close, calm, 
moist, and warm atmosphere, and when once dislodged 
from its native place it is very difficult to establish it 
otherwise than with these conditions. It may be suc¬ 
cessfully grown in a pot by first filling a middling-sized 
pot one-third full of finely-broken potsherds or sandstone, 
putting upon this a layer a little finer, and filling the 
remaining space with a compost of fine loam, silver 
sand, and finely-powdered sandstone in equal parts. 
This is to be pressed firmly together, and then arrange 
the caudex or main root very carefully upon the surface, * 
I fixing it by means of a few very small hooked pegs— 
No. CCCCXXXIX. Vol. XVII 
