6lO FILICE3 



First record. Snelsmore, Herb. Bicheno, 1815. Bagley Wood, Baxt 

 Stirp. Crypt. Ox. 1825. Given by Mr. T. B. Flower in Robertson's 

 Eiiv. of Reading, 1843. 

 The Male fern is a variable species, but examples of these variations 

 are not so frequent in our county as in some others. Our chief 

 varieties are the following : — 



Var. AFFiNis, Newm. Hist. Brit. Ferns, 187. Aspidium affine, Fischer 

 & Meyer in Hohenack. Enum. PI. prov. Taluesch. leg. (1838) 10. 



1. Isis. Wytham. 2. Ock. Bagley Wood. 3. Pang. Buckle- 

 bury. Cold Ash Common. Hermitage. Fence Wood. 4. Kennet. 

 West Woodhay, Reeks. Greenham Common. Snelsmore. Ink- 

 pen. Aldermaston. Mortimer. Burghfield. 5. Loddon. 

 Easthampstead. Windsor Park. Sandhurst. Near Blackwater. 

 Bracknell. Barkham. Coleman's Moor. 

 Var. PALEACEA (Don, Fl. Nepaul. Prod. 4 (1825), as Aspidium). 

 JDryopteris Filix-mas, var. Borreri, Newm. I.e. 189. 



1. Isis. Wytham. Pusey. 2. Ock. Powder Hill Copse, Boswell. 

 Bagley. Frilford. Wittenham. 3. Pang. Basildon. Buckle- 

 bury. Tilehurst. Hermitage. Fence Woods. 4. Kennet. 

 West Woodhay, Reeks. Mortimer, Tufnail. Snelsmore. Wick- 

 ham. Inkpen. Greenham. Crookham. Aldermaston. 5. 

 Loddon. Sandhurst. Windsor Park. Finchampstead. 

 D. Filix-mas is found in all the bordering counties. 



D. spinulosa, Kuntze, Rev. Gen. PI. 813 (1891). 



D. intermedia, Asa Gray, Man. Bot. U. S. 630, teste Rabenhorst. 



L. sjnnulosa, Presl, Tent. Pterid. 76. Aspidium spinulosum, Sm. Fl. 



Brit. iii. 1124 (1804), and E. B. t. 1460. Nephrodium spinulosum^ 



Strempel, Syn. Fl. Berol. 30 (1824). Polypodium spinulosum, Mueller, 



Fl. Dan. xii. t. 707 (1777). 

 Top. Bot. 516. Syme, E. B. xii. 76, t. 1855. Nyman, 866. Fl. Oxf. 



361. 

 Native. Sylvestral. Damp thickets, woods, and heaths. Local. P. 



June-August. 

 First recorded by Mr. H. Boswell in Britt. Contr. 1871. 



1. Isis. Wytham Woods. 



2. Ock. Bagley. Powder Hill Copse, 5os?ye?Z. Hen Wood. Cothill. 



Frilford. Tubney. 



3. Pang, Between Tidmarsh and Englefield, Tufnail. Hawkridge. 



Oare Wood. Fence Wood. 



4. Kennet. Ufton, Tufnail. Aldermaston. Mortimer. Burghfield. 



Padworth. Greenham. Sandleford. 



5. Loddon. Blackwater. Finchampstead. Sandhurst. Wellington 



College. Long Moor. Bagshot. Sunninghill. Windsor Park. 

 Near Loddon Bridge. 



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