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A history of British ferns / By Edward Newman, F.L.S.

  • Edward Newman
Date:
1840
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Credit: A history of British ferns / By Edward Newman, F.L.S. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    CORRIGENDA ET ADDENDA. At page 17, ALLosorus Crispus. Add tothe English localities, Shropshire, on the Titterstone Clee Hill, The first, second, and third fronds of this species, figured at page 18, are from the same root: the first is the fertile frond, which is produced earliest in the spring; the second, with oak-leaved pinnulz, is next thrown up, and the third is the production of summer, when the plant is weakened by its previous produce: the fourth frond is a variety. At page 21, PoLypoprum vuLtGArE. The pinne are in several instances described as pinnule. At page 29, Woops1a Itvensis. The second name, W. Hyperborea, should have been printed in italics: as it now stands, it appears that I intended to employ both the names, which was not the case. I should also have added that Woodsia is recorded by Sir W. J. Hooker, on the authority of Mr. James Backhouse, as having occurred in England. At page 45, LastrmA TuHELypTeris. The following localities should be added. Enoianp.—Norfolk, St. Faith’s, Newton bogs ; Essex, Little Baddow Common, near Chelmsford; Kent, at North Cray, by the side of a rivulet going down the lane towards the church, and in Waterdown Forest, near Tunbridge Wells; Surrey, below Leith Hill, on a bog near Coal Harbour; Sussex, in Ashdown Forest near Maresfield, Albourne among the alders near the sandpit, bog at Bechley Forge, near Battle, and at Amberley Wildbrook. IrELAND.—County Mayo, on the banks of Lough Carra. At page 48, LastR&A OREOPTERIS. Mr. Pamplin has given me, under the name Thelypteris, a variety of Oreopteris, with the margins of the pinnule convolute, and the lateral veins mostly forked ; he found it in the marsh through which the road passes be- tween Edridge and Tunbridge Wells: I have found the same variety in Epping Forest. At page 65, ATHYRIUM Finix-remiIna. I have just received a packet from Mr C. C. Babington, containing two beautiful varieties of this fern. 1st. From Trevenna,’ in Cornwall, with the division of the pinne linear or laciniate, with a vein running into each: it is of small size, scarcely four inchesin length, and has no seed. 2d. From Stoke Fleming, in Devonshire, with the pinnule pinnate, and their divisions toothed’ I shall feel extremely obliged to any of my readers who can send to my publishers’ directed for me, living British specimens of Adiantum Capillus Veneris; Polypodium calcareum (of Smith); Woodsia; Polystichum Lonchitis ; Lastrzea cristata and L. rigida; Trichomanes speciosum or Botrychium lunaria.