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resources, and, doubtless regarding this cataclysm as a usual thing, 
it” speedily pushed а host of fronds through the gravel, and grew, 
thenceforth, season after season, as if at Snowdon’s foot itself. 
As regards varieties, only one was found, a very pretty tasselled 














Fig. 22. A. crispus. Varied forms of fronds on same plant. 
one, but this unfortunately died, as did a large number of true | 
seedlings which were subsequently raised Бу Мг. |. М. Вагпез 
from soil collected at the spot whence the original plant was lifted, | 
а Spot Presumably subsequently lost sight of, as no second attempt | 
15 recorded. 

THE ASPLENIA (THE SPLEENWORTS) 
The Spleenwort genus is represented in the British Isles by no 
less than ten species, viz. Asp. trichomanes, Asp. viride, Asp. ! 
adiantum nigrum, Asp. lanceolatum, Asp. marinum, Asp. ruta- | 
muraria, Asp. septentrionale, Asp. germanicum, Asp. fontanum, 
and Asp. ceterach, the last of which is usually known as Ceterach 
oficinarum, but by all generic distinctions is a true Spleenwort. 
The allocation of Athyrium filix-femina to the Spleenwort family 
is, in every Fern-grower’s opinion, too absurd to be discussed, as it 



