BRITISH FERN 
XXVIII 
LASTREA PSEUDO-MAS, 207. REVOLVENS ( Voll.) 
Mr. Е. Clowes, Windermere. Westmoreland. 1868. 
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It is remarkable that this very distinct variety should have been 
unconsciously introduced into a fernery (that of Mrs. Taylor at 
Iffotsholme Farm, Troutbeck Bridge, Windermere) “She 
wished,” Mr. Clowes writes, “ the gardener to ornament with 
ferns a sort of paved bank near the garden; he got a lot of ferns 
anywhere and this was one of them.” It was there first noticed 
by Mr. Clowes, who adds that it was then a fairly tall-growing 
plant,—at least 2 ft. high,—but since its division it has adopted a 
much more dwarf habit, which as far as can be yet judged of, is 
shared by its seedlings. 

