6o6 FILICES 



Long Moor. Wokingham. Bearwood. Very fine near .Touldern's 

 Ford. Bagshot. Bracknell. Sunninghill. Windsor Great 

 Park. Binfield. Hurst. Bear Wood. Stubbing's Heath. 

 Ashley Hill. Bowsey Hill. Bisham. 



A. FUix-foemina is a very variable fern. Among the forms are — 



Var. cojTV-EXUM (Newman, j). p. in Phyt. (1851) App. xiii. as a species), 

 which has been noticed near Wickham, on Greenham, Aldermaston, 

 Mortimer, and Burghfield Heaths, at Sandhurst, Easthampstead, 

 FinchaniiDstead, Owls Moor, and near Ascot. It is found in dry open 

 l^laces. 



Var. MOLLE (Roth, Tent. Fl. Germ. iii. 6r, as a species) =\ar.fissidens, 

 Asch. Syn. 12, with small fronds of a more delicate texture, which 

 I have seen in damp shady woods, as at Wytham, Fence Wood, Ufton, 

 Aldermaston, Padworth, Sandhurst, Windsor Park, &c. 



A very large number of so-called varieties are described, and many 

 of them figured in Lowe's Our Native Ferns, vol. ii. 63-140 (1865). Of 

 these the var. irregulare, Moore ; the var. pannosum, Moore ; the var. 

 jmdnosum, Moore ; the var. ovatum, Eoth ; and the var. odontomanes, 

 Moore, are recorded from Virginia Water. 



Aihyrium Filix-foemitia is found in all the bordering counties. 



CETERACH, Adans. Fam. ii. 20 (1763). 

 C. of&cinarum, Willd. Sp. PI. v. 136 (iBio), and of C. B. Pin. 



C. Ceterach, Karst. Asplenium Ceterach, Linn. Sp. PI. 1080(1753), and 

 Asch. Syn. 54. Asplenium sire Ceterach, Gerard, 978. 



Top. Bot. 508. Syme, E. B. xii. 139, t. 1883. Nyman, 868. Fl. Oxf. 363. 



Native. Eupestral. Old walls. Very local. P. April-October. 



First record. 'Berkshire,' in Lowe's Our Native Ferns, ii. 372, 1865, 

 definitely recorded by the author in Rep. of Bot. Bee. Gubfor 1881. 



1. Isis. Buckland, Boswell. Wytham Abbey, abundant. Buscot. 



2. Ock. In the brickwork of the Abingdon Canal, 1881. On walls 



in Marcham. Kingston Bagpuze. Culham Bridge. 

 Asplenium sive Ceterach, on Beekonsfield Church in Barkshire, Park. 

 Theatr. 1050 (1640) ; but Beaconsfield is in Buckinghamshire. 

 Ceterach is recorded for all the bordering counties. 



SCOLOPENDRIITM, Adans. Fam. ii. 20 (1763), Sm. in Act. 

 Taur. V. 410 (1791), teste Pfeiflfer. 



S. vulg-are, Symons, Syn. 193 (1798'). Harfs-tongue Fern. 



S. Scolopendrium, Karst. Deutsche Fl. 278 (1880^3). S. officinarum, 

 Swartz, in Schrad. Journ. ii. (1800) 61. Asplenium Scolopendrium, 

 Linn. Sp. PI. 1079 (i753^- Phyllitis, Gerard, 976. 

 Top. Bot. 520. Syme, E. B. xii. 141, t. 1884. Nyman, 862. Fl. Oxf. 357. 



