SCALY HART'S-TONGUE. 



Ceterach officinarum. — Willdenow. 



Grammitis Ceterach. — Hooker, Mackay, Francis. 



Asplenium Ceterach. — Linneus, Hudson, Lightfoot, Bolton, 



Berkenhout. 

 Scolopendrium Ceterach. — Smith, Galpine. 



LOCALITIES. 



England . . Yorkshire; Lancashire, very rare, a few fronds so labelled are in Herbaria; Derby- 

 shire, Dovedale, on rocks; Shropshire, on walls at Ludlow; Worcestershire, the 

 Abbey Church at Malvern ; Herefordshire, walls in Hereford and Leominster ; 

 Gloucestershire, wall at Tocknells, near Painswick; Monmouthshire, onRagland 

 Castle and Tintern Abbey; Somersetshire, Bath, Bristol, Wells, Langport, Cheddar; 

 Devonshire and Cornwall, in various localities ; Berkshire, at Pusey, near Farring. 

 don ; Hampshire, on the walls of the city of Winchester ; Sussex ; Kent, Tunbridge 

 Wells, Maidstone church, Swanscombe church, Shorn church. 



Wales . . . Caernarvonshire, walls and rock near Bagnor, on the Caernarvon road ; Glamorgan- 

 shire, Swansea. 



Scotland . . At Dundonald and the Carse of Gowrie, according to Hooker. 



Ireland. . . County Dublin, on Tullow church ; county Wicklow, at the seven churches of Glen- 

 dalough ; county Kilkenny, near Kilkenny ; county Tipperary, Cashel and Clon- 

 mel; county Cork, at Kilworth, Glanworth, Ferraoy, Rathcormack, Watergrass 

 Hill, Cork, Bandon, Clonakilty; county Kerry, near Tralee, near Killarney 

 county Limerick, Castle Connel, and Limerick; county Clare, Limerick, and near 

 Ennis; county Galway, Loughrea, Galway, MoycuUen, and Oughterard. 



This little fern is distributed over the south-western counties 

 of England and Ireland ; it is of rare occurrence in the midland 

 and northern counties, and in Scotland, as far as my own infor- 

 mation goes, it is entirely unknown ; but Sir W. J. Hooker 



