FOSSIL PLANTS OF BRITAIN. 75 



the left of the road, on a rock which appeared to have been 

 blasted but a few years back. It was of small size and some- 

 what unusual form, and 1 consider the habitat worthy of no- 

 tice, as being so completely inland. The plant grows at a 

 considerable height on the cliff, and, except to a practised 

 eye, would have the appearance of Ceterach officinarum. — 

 The site of this fern is near a tunnel of rock, through which 

 the road passes. The walk here is very fine ; the arbutus 

 trees are most ornamental and of large size : I measured the 

 trunk of one that was lying by the road-side, and found it four 

 feet nine inches in circumference. Rohertsonia umhrosa, or 

 the plant which I have taken for it, is very abundant both 

 here and at the Gap of Dunloe. 



The ferns which I met with at Killarney are these. Lo- 

 maria spicant, Pteris aquilina, Polypodinm r/ulgare, Poly- 

 stichum aculeatum, LastrcBa Oreopieris, Las. Filix-mas, Las. 

 dilatata, Athyrium Filix-Joemina, Asplenium Adiantum-ni- 

 grum. Asp. Rufa-muraria, Asp.marinum, Asp. Trichomanes, 

 Scolopendrium, vidgare, Ceterach officinarum, Trichomanes 

 speciosum, Hymenophyllum Tunbridgense, Hym. Wilsoni, 

 and Osmunda regalis : and to these Mr. Mackay has added 

 Lastrcea Thelypieris. Polypodium Dryopteris and PJtegop- 

 teris, ferns which delight in regions like these, I was unable 

 to discover. 



(To be continued). 



Abt. III.— ^ Systematic Catalogue of the Fossil Plants of Britain, 

 By John Morris, Esq. 



(Continued from Vol. in-page 6AQ J, 



Adiantites, Gopp. 



Frond stipitate, semi-orl)icular, fan-shaped, entire, deeply lobed or pin- 

 nate, j^mncc nearly orbicular or oblong, usually unequal and cordate at the 

 base ; veins very numerous, forked, arising from the base ; midrib scarcely 

 apparent. 



* Frond simple, stipitate. 



Adian. digit atus, Gopp. page 217; Sphenopteris latifolia, 

 Phillips, tab. 7, fig. 18. Cyclopteris digitata, Brong. Hist, 

 i. page 219, tab. 61, fig. 2, 3; Sternb. part v. and vi. page 

 ^^. Upper Oolite shale, Scarborough ; Bumiston Bay. 



