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ORDER FILICES. 



1372. Ceterach offidna)-i/t/t, Willd. (Scale Fern ; Rusty 

 Back). Native. English type. Range i. Walls and 

 crevices of rocks, mainly in the limestone districts. 



C. St. Bees, Sandwith, Mosser, and Gosforth. — (W. Dickin- 

 son, J. Robson.) Old wall at Cleator. — (Rev. F. Addison.) 

 On Yew Crag and the banks of Aira Beck. — (Linton.) 



W. Recorded by Lawson from the old bridge at Troutbeck, 

 long since destroyed. In many places in the limestone 

 country from Kendal by way of Whitbarrow to Arnside Knot. 



L. Rocks of Humphrey Head and wall at Cark. — (Dr. 

 Windsor, C. Bailey.) Old walls about Newlands. — (Miss 

 Hodgson.) Brathay and Pull Bay, Windermere. — (J. Coward.) 

 On a barn at Low Bank-ground, Coniston. — (Miss Beever.) 



1373. 1 Foods ia ilvensis, Br. Native. Highland type. 

 Range 3. High slate crags. Very rare. Has been gathered 

 on Scawfell and Helvellyn by Isaac Hudhart and F. Clowes ; 

 on Dove Crag, Fairfield, Hart Crag, Scandale Fell, the Red 

 Screes, and at the head of Riggindale, Mardale, by J. Coward ; 

 and on the Hill Bell range by J. Backhouse. Recorded by 

 T. Thompson in Phytologist, vol. i. p. 331, from the walls 

 of the church at Crosby Ravensworth, which is a very unlikely 

 station. A plant from Dove Crag, Fairfield, which has been 

 referred to W. alpi?ia, I have not seen. 



1374. Polypodium viilgare, L. (Common Polypody), 

 Native. British type. Range 1-3. Common on walls, 

 rocks, and old trees. Ascends to the limestone pavement of 

 Whitbarrow and Hutton-Roof, to 400 yards in Great Lang- 

 dale, and noted by Watson up to 670 yards. 



1375. Polypodium F/iegopteris, L. (Beech Fern). Native. 

 Scottish type. Range 1-3. Damp woods and hedge-banks. 



