CYSTOPTERIS MONTANA IN STIRLINGSHIRE 



is but twenty-seven miles distant in a direct line from 

 the " Second City," and is visited annually by many botanists, 

 it should only at this late day be telling us that Cystopteris 

 montana belongs to its flora and to the 

 flora of Stirlingshire. Through the kind- 

 ness of Mr. Bennett, I am in a position 

 to give particulars in full of the other 

 five counties in Britain in which C. mon- 

 tana has been found ; they are : (69) 

 Westmorland, on Helvellyn ; (88) Perth, 

 Mid, on the Breadalbanes ; (90) Forfar, 

 in Caenlochan Glen ; (92) Aberdeen, 

 South, in Glen Callater ; and, lastly, 

 Argyle, Main, on Ben Laoigh, on its 

 north-west side, as I have been kindly Lowest pinna of Cysto- 

 informed by Mr. G. Claridge Druce, F.L.S., P te >j >"J a (s how - 



ing fructification). 



who was the discoverer of it there. C. 

 montana was first found in Britain by Mr. W. Wilson, on 

 Ben Lawers, in 1836. Its foreign distribution, according 

 to Sir J. D. Hooker, is in "arctic and alpine regions in 

 Europe, Asia, and America." 



The genus Cystopteris, of which there are five species 

 known to science, has in Britain (excluding the doubtful C. 

 alpina of Desvaux) two representatives, viz. the subject of 

 this communication, and C. fragilis, Bernh. The latter, as 

 we know, is common ; I have taken it near Glasgow under 

 the shade of a hawthorn hedge, between Fossil Marsh and 

 Cadder " Wilderness " in Lanarkshire. Its altitudinal range 

 is from the sea-level to 4000 feet, contrasting in this with 

 C. montana, which latter, however, though an " alpine," grows 

 well from its creeping rhizome in our gardens under cultiva- 

 tion. 



[For permission to use the figure I am indebted to the courtesy 

 of Messrs. Swan Sonnenschein & Co., publishers of " British Ferns, 

 and where found."] 



