SPEAR-SHAPED SPLEENWORT. 



ASPLENIUM LANCEOLATUM of Autliors. 



LOCALITIES. 



England.. . . Kent, among ivy, on the face of a rock near the High Rocks, and also on tlie 

 High Rocks, Tunbridge Wells , Devonshire, Morwell Rocks on the hanks of the 

 Taniar, rocks on the hanks of the Tavey opposite Virtuous Lady Mine, rocks 

 near Cann quarry on the hanks of the Plym; Cornwall, near St. Ives, and 

 various other localities, also the Scilly islands. 



Wales Merionethshire, near Barmouth, on rocks and walls; Caernarvonshire, on a rock 



to the left of the road between Tan-y-bwlch and Aberglaslyn, and on a second 

 rock close to Aberglaslyn. 



Scotland. 

 Ireland. 



Unknown. 



This is one of our most local ferns ; it is confined, as far as 

 I am aware, to the coasts of Merionethshire, Caernarvonshire, 

 Devonshire, and Cornwall, and to the neighbourhood of Tunbridge 

 Wells, where, I am sorry to say, " owing to the ravages of un- 

 principled botanists," it has become nearly extinct. In Scotland 

 and Ireland it is at present entirely unknown. It roots in the 

 fissures of rocks, and seems to require no depth of earth : in 

 one instance in the neighbourhood of Barmouth, I have found it 

 in profusion on an old stone wall. Whenever I have met with 

 this fern, it has been intermixed with its cognate species. 



