6 12 FILICES 



Top. Bot. 509. Symc, E. B. xii. 38, t. 1842. Nyman, 867. Fl. Oxf. 362. 

 Native, Septal, &c. Walls, banks, pollard-willows, tree-trunks, base 

 of hedges, &c. Rather common and generally distributed. P. 

 August-October. 

 First record. Polypodium murale. pinmiUs serraiis, walls of Windsor 

 Castle, found by the Rev. Mr. Manningham, Ray, Syn. ed. 3, 117, 

 1724, and Du Bois Herb. Oxford, c. 1700. 

 The Polypody, after the Bracken and the Male Fern, is our commonest 

 species of the genus, and too frequent to need a list of localities. It 

 occurs near Ilsley at an elevation of 600 feet above sea level. 



The var. serratum, Willd. Sp. PI. v. 173 (1810), was probably the 

 form found by Dr. Manningham ; I have seen it near East Ilsley, &c. 

 Polypodium vulgare is found in all the bordering counties. 



PHEGOPTERIS, Fee, Gen. Fil. 242 (1850-2). See Presl. Tent. 



Pterid. 179 (1836). 



[P. Drtopteris, Fee, Gen. Fil. 243 (1850-2). Oak Fern. 



Polypodium Dryopteris^ Linn. Sp. PI. 1093 (1753). Aspidiuvi Dryopteris, 



Baumg. Enum. Trans, iv. 29 (1846). Syme, E. B. xii. 46, t. 1845. 

 Is recorded for Hants, with some dotibts as to its being native, and frona 

 the Chiltern country in Bucks and in Oxfordshire.] 



[P. CALCAREA, F6e, Gen. Fil. 243 (1850-2). Limestone Polypody. 



P. Eoberfiana, Bravm in Sclied. vide Rabenli. Krypt. Fl. 303. Polypodium 

 Robertianum, Hoffm. Deutsch. Fl. Crypt. Add. 10 (1795). P. calcareicm, 

 Smith, E. B. t. 1525, and Fl. Brit. iii. 1117 (1804). Aspidium Robertianum, 

 Luerssen in Ascli. Syn. i. 22, 1896. Syme, E. B. xi. 48, t. 1846. 



Is recorded for Oxfordshire, Bucks, Wilts, and E. Gloucestershire.] 



P. polypodioides, Fee, Gen. Fil. 243 (1850-2). Beech Fern. 



P. Phegopteris, Underw., Small in Bull. Torrey Club, xx. (1893) 462. 

 Polypodium Phegopteris, Linn. Sp. PI. .1089 O1753). Aspidium 

 Phegopteris, Baumg. 1. c. 28. 



Top. Bot. 509, Syme, E. B. xii. 50, t. 1847. Nyman, 867. 



Native. Sylvestral. Shady woods. Very rare. P. July-September. 



First found by Mr. F. Tufnail in 1892. 



4. Kennet. In ditches in wooded country near Mortimer, Tufnail. 



The Beech Fern is recorded from Gloucestershire only of the border- 

 ing counties, but it has been found in Hampshire. 



OSMUND A, Linn. Gen. n. 1036 (Tournefort, Inst. t. 324). 

 O. regalis, Linn. Sp. PI. 1065 (1753), and of Gerard, 971. Flowering Fern. 

 Top. Bot. 522. Syme, E. B. xii. 30, t. 1838. Nyman, 869. Fl. Oxf. 363. 

 Native. Uliginal. Boggy spots in shady woods. Very rare. P. 



June-September. 

 First record. Filix florida, neere Redding, E. Ashmole's MS. 165 1. 



Osmunda regalis, Bagshot Heath, Mr. Doody, Ray, Syn. ed. 2, 345, 



