162 Natvral History hi the English Counties._ 



**J?rassica olcrhcea. Cliffs at Penzance. 



Geranium sanguineum. Kinance Cove. 



**Crenista pilosa. Kinance Cove. 



JViftlium scabrum. Sea-shore, near Penzance. 

 &c. 



iTypericum y^ndrosse^mum. Gulval, Trevayler 

 Bottom, &c. 



/'nula Hel&nium. Gulval, St. Michael's Mount, 

 St. Ives, St. Mary's, Scilly. 



Pyr^thrum marftimum. Seashore, Penzance. 



^'nthemis nobilis. Pastures, and near the sea- 

 shore, in many places. 



J?6scus aculeatus. Lamorna Cove, St Martin's 

 Island, Scilly. 



3fyrlca Gale. Gulval and Ludgvan. 



Aspidium dilatktum, var. recurvum. f {,fig. 32.) 

 Moist banks, frequent. 



.^spleniura lanceolatum. Gulval, St. Michael's 

 Mount, Lamorna Cove, &c., frequent, 

 marlnum, St. Michael's Mount, Lamorna 

 Cove, &c., Scilly Islands. 



Hymenophyilum tunbridgiSnse. Among thelooso 

 stones at Castle An Dennis, near Penzance. 



Dfcranum cervicul^tum. Gulval, Scilly Islands, 

 crispum. St. Mary's, Scilly. 



Trich6stomum polyphyllum. Gulval, Land's 

 End,&c. 



Neckfera heteromalla. Trevayler Bottom, Try, 

 &c. 



Bypnum scorpioldes. Gulval, Zennor, Land's 

 End. 



**Hook^rMi Iticens. Trevayler Bottom, be- 

 tween Rosemorran and Kenegie, &c. 



— W. T. Brec. Allesley Rectory, Jan. 7. 1830. 



Leicestershire. 

 Plants found in Charmvood Forest (See Vol. III. p. 167.) : — 



i?bsa spinosissima, Dianthus 

 _ delttfides, and Malva ro- 



tundifblia. A rocky knoll 



near Grooby. 

 Plantago Coronopus. 

 Origanum vulgare. 

 A'vahis Thali^wa. 

 — Andrew Bloxam. G^^nfieldy near Leicester, March, 1830. 



Prybnia dioica. 

 i/ypericum humifiisum. 

 Ornithopus perpusfllus. Near 



Grooby Pool 

 -tardus stricta. Broombrigg 



Hill. 



Cnlcus pratdnsis. Meadow 

 above Glen field. 



^haranus catharticus. Be- 

 tween Glenfield and Kirby, 

 on the foot-road. 



Tormentilla reptans. 



f This fern, I have very little doubt, is really a distinct species ; and one 

 which, I believe, has not hitherto been described, at least not as a native 

 of Britain. Although it strikes the eye immediately as being different from 

 Aspidium dilatatum, it is difficult, I confess, to seize upon those permanent 

 characters by which it is to be distinguished. The minute divisions of the 

 leaflets in Aspidium dilatatum frequently droop or curl under, while the 

 corresponding parts in the present subject invariably curl back or upwards 

 in an exactly^^contrary direction {fig. 32. «, which represents a leaflet mag- 

 nified), and thus give the whole frond a singularly crisped appearance. But 

 the strongest character by which it may be distinguished from its near ally, 

 consists in the lower pair of pinnae or leaflets being much larger than the 

 others (which is not the case in A. dilatatum) ; so that the frond assumes 

 a deltoid or triangular form, broadest at the base, and tapering to the apex. 

 The fern occurs plentifully in the neighbourhood of Penzance, growing in 

 situations similar to those in which A. dilatatum is found. I have also met 

 with it in several parts of Ireland, particularly near Killarney ; and have 

 received plants of it from the celebrated cryptogamist the late Mr. James 

 Dickson, who procured it from Sussex, and considered it as a distinct spe- 

 cies. Like A. dilatatum, it is a very variable species, the plant differing 

 greatly in size according to the situation in which it grows : on very dry 

 banks I have found perfect fructifying fronds not more than a few inches 

 \n»h.— W.T.Bree. 



