244 FLORA OF THE LAKE DISTRICT. 



near Kirkby Lonsdale. Mr. Clowes and Miss Beever both 

 think all the Lake filmy fern is this sub-species, none of it 

 true Tuiibridgense. 



1409. Osmunda regalis, L. (Flowering Fern). Native. 

 British type. Range i. Once spread through the district in 

 low damp woods, but now much dug up and destroyed. For 

 instance at Colwith Force, where it once grew luxuriantly, I 

 was grieved at my last visit in 1882 to find none left. On the 

 Brathay, where it was once, Mr. Coward tells me, so plentiful 

 as to interfere with the fishing, it is now scarce, and on 

 Loughrigg, and on the shores of Grasmere and Rydal lakes, 

 where it was once abundant, there is now none left. It was 

 found not only round Derwentwater, Windermere, and 

 Coniston Water, but also along the coast at Allonby, Sea- 

 scale, Sellafield, Ulverstone, and Grange, and in many of the 

 mosses about Kendal, Milnthorpe, and Kirkby Lonsdale. 



1 410. Botrychium Lunaria, Sw. (Moonwort). Native. 

 British type. Range i. Frequent on heathy pastures, from 

 shore-level at St. Bees Head up to Gowbarrow Fells (W. 

 Hodgson), and Water millock, 300 yards. Two varieties, 

 called by Ray ' Branched Moonwort,' and ' Cut-leaved Moon- 

 wort,' were gathered by Lawson at Great Strickland. 



1 4 1 1 . Ophioglossum vulgattwi, L. (Adder's Tongue). Native. 

 British type. Range i. Frequent in meadows in the lower 

 zone, but easily overlooked. 



ORDER LYCOPODIACE^. 



141 2. Lycopodiuvi davatuin, L. (Stag's-horn Moss). Native. 

 British type. Range 1-3. P^equent on the grassy hillsides, 

 up to 600 yards on Grisedale Pike and Haystacks ; 700 yards 

 on High Street. 



