in other localities in that island, whence both Mr. "Wolsey and Mr.
C. Jackson have furnished specimens. The plants are developed in
autumn, and aro fully fructified by October. It seems probable
that a diligent search would be rewarded by its discovery in the
western counties of England, or in Ireland. It must, however, be
sought after in winter, or even earlier.
This Fern is found in tho European countries bordering the
Mediterranean, as well as in many of the islands of that sea : e. g.,
Spain, Portugal, France, Italy, Sicily, Dahnatia, and Greece. It
grows also at Tangiers, Algiers, and probably elsewhere on the
African coast ; and in the Atlantic Islands of Madeira, Teneriffe,
the Canaries, the Azores and the Cape de Verds. It is found in
the southern hemisphere at Swan River, and in New Zealand.
Other plants closely allied to, and perhaps identical with this,
havo been found by Mr. Spruce at St. Gabriel, and by others in New
Grenada, Java, and Borneo ; and in the Hookerian Herbarium, are
others again comparatively broader in the fronds, from Tasmania, the
Isle of Pines, and St. Helena, all three being at least closely allied
to 0. lusitanicum. The 0. minimum of New Zealand, is a diminutive
form of this normally diminutive species.
The most successful attempts that have been made to cultivate this
little plant have consisted in taking up the roots, iu little clods of
soil, and planting them in a compost of sandy loam, which resembles
the earth iu which they naturally grow. In this way, the plants may
he occasionally preserved and induced to reappear at the proper
season ; but hke all the allied species it can hardly be considered as
a manageable subject in the cultivator’s hands.
A D D E N D A .
rshice our former volume issued from th e press, we have rereived many additional
varieties, th e most im p o rtan t of w-hich are noticed in th e following supplementary
IS.]
P o ly p o d iu m v u lg a r e (vol. i. pp. 63-67).
1. acidum (M.). BucMiighamshire : Great Missenden, B. H m a rd .
4. sinuatum (M.). Devonshire : Instow, C. JtwJcsofi.
5 * venosum CM..). A small and subpermanent form, having th e fronds minutely
serrated, h n t chiefly remarkable for th e venpse appearance of its surface, th e
veins being surrounded by narrow lines of d a r k g r e e n tissue while th e in te rvening
spaces are yellowish. I t was found in Yorkshire by Mr. A. Clapham.
7. a u rttum (Willd.). Devonshire : Eggesford, 0. Jackson. Westmoreland : Win-
dermere (serrated), F. J . Jeffery.
9. cristatum (M.). A form of th is w ith a finely mnltifld apex has been found in
Devonshire, a t Fremington, hy Mr. 0. Jackson.
10. serratum (WUld.). Surrey : Compton, T. M.
11.* canarünse (M.). See vol. i. p. 66. Somersetshire: Nettlecombe, O. Elworthy.
12.» muUifido-crisfatum (M.). This is one of th e most beautiful forms ye* k n o™ .
The largest fronds we have seen are scarcely six inches high, an d have th e
lower pinnæ or segments finely multifid-crisped as in th e Crested Male Fern,
h u t th e apex is several times multifid forming a large spreading head, and th e
branches of th e head are multifid-crisped forming little curly tu fts of laciniate
segments. I t was found in 1855 hy Mr. Hen ry Parker, on an old wall a t
H u tto n , near Weston-super-Mare, Somersetshire.
13. multiforme (Clowes). Netley Abbey (truncate form), G. B . Wollaskm.
13 * oMenuatum (M.). A fine large lax-fronded form, sometimes as much as sixteen
‘ inches long exclusive of th e stipes, and eight inches across. The segments are
distant, dü ated a t th e base on b o th sides, shghtly aurite in front, th e margins
notched w ith d istan t shallow serratures, which sometimes become enlarged
into lohes, when i t resembles th e less developed states of semilaxxrump.4) ; th e
chief peculiarity of th e variety however is th e attenuated apices of th e dista
n t segments, which become elongately caudate. I t was found some years
since in Guernsey h y Dr. AUchin. and proves to he permanent.
14. semüacerum (Link). Dumfries-shire : Moffat, J . Anderson. Westmoreland :
Whitbarrow, P. Clowes.
P o ly p o d iu m a lp e s t r e (i. 81).
A ffiÿ k lam fs .-P e rth sh ire : mountains between Glen Lochy and Glen Doohart;
Craig Cfialliach.
N. Sutherlandshire : Ben More, T. Westeorïibe.
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