ASPLENIUM FONTANUM. 341 
Wybourn, in Westmoreland; or rather, perhaps Wiborn in Cumber- 
land.” Mr. Hewett Watson (Cybele, iii. 275) justly observes that 
Mr. Hudson has given this second station more vaguely than the first, 
and without personal authority expressly cited.” The same vagueness 
in regard to this locality unfortunately exists in the Herbarium of Mr. 
Lightfoot, formerly in possession of Queen Charlotte, now in that of 
Mr. Brown, who has just shown me, in that herbarium, true and un- 
doubted specimens of this British rarity,—so rare that some writers 
have wholly ignored its existence as a British plant; while Mr. Watson 
has been led to remark, “ It is to be feared that we have at present only 
garden plants, or errors of name, as the data for considering 4. fonta- 
num a British species." 
Lightfoot’s specimens are attached to one leaf of a folded sheet of 
paper. On the opposite leaf is written, by Lightfoot himself,— 
“ Polypodium fontanum” (here follow the synonyms and characters 
copied from Linnzeus and Ray, adding the remark) : 
“Upon the rocks about Wybourn, Westmoreland ;” and then, 
“This I gathered on Ammersham Church, Bucks.” 
One does not see well how the accuracy of this statement can be 
called in question. 
In the Phytologist’ for 1852, p. 477, a new locality, by ** C. Wood,” 
is given: viz, * On the south-west side of Tooting Common, in the cre- 
vices of an old wall of an isolated mansion, called Furze Down, the 
property of — Haigh, Esq., whence I obtained plants, and supplied 
my friends therewith.” At the same time with this statement, Mr. C. 
Wood sends to Mr. Newman a specimen taken from a frond gathered 
in the above locality. This frond, in the next sentence, Mr. Newman 
pronounces to be “ the divided form described" (where ?) ** as a distinct 
species, under the name of Asplenium Halleri." 
The paragraph that stands next to this in the ‘Phytologist’ is a —— 
query inserted by a correspondent, whose signature is “J. V. V.;" “Why — 
is this species omitted in recent works on Ferns ?"—The answer is by 
Mr. Newman: ‘Because I can find in no herbarium a frond, or even. — 
a fragment of a frond, gathered within the kingdom of Great Britain ` 
and Ireland. The Fern found at Kirk Hammersham, or Hammersham | | 
Church, as Hudson bas it, appears to have been Cistopieris fragilis." * 
An us ME HO by others, as well as by ourselves, 
in Brit. FL, ed. 7. 
