I32 THE FLORA OF HALIFAX. 



1888. Near Todmorden, (A. Stansfield) ; head of Hebden 

 Valley. — Lees' Flora. 



Said to be extinct in S.W. Yorks., in Top. Bot., probably on 

 the authority of Leyland ; but, though it has been extinct 

 at Heptonstall for about thirty years, Mr. Needham states 

 that it was twice seen in 1898, in one of the doughs of the 

 upper Hebden — and left. 



Lomaria Spicant, Desv. — in. (Blechnum boreale, Sw.) 



Native. British type. P. July-August. [Hard Fern. 

 1785. In Birks Wood, near Halifax, abundantly. — /. 



Bolton, Fil. Brit. Near Halifax. — Herb. Leyland. 



1840. Abundantly. — Herb. S. King. 

 1862. Seventeen varieties, or sports, from Mytholmroyd, 



Stansfield and Todmorden are enumerated by A . and T. 



Stans/ield in MialVs Flora. 



1867. Shibden ; very abundant in the Ogden cloughs. — 

 /. Walker. 



Common, in most, or all, of the moorland cloughs, as Ogden 

 and Widdop, on the rocky moor edges and stream sides ; 

 now rare near the towns or below 700 feet, though it is 

 found at the bottom of Norland Clough (250 feet). 

 Asplenium Adiantum-nigrum, L. — 107. Black Spleenwort. 

 Native. British type. P. July-September. 



On old walls near Willow Hall, on the Burnley Road. — 

 Herb . Leyland. 



1840. Ive House Lane, Warley. — Herb. S. King. 



1862. Wadsworth Banks, Ive House Clough, and turnpike 



between Cote Hill and Luddenden Foot. — C. Eastwood ; 



Miall's Flora. [J. Walker. 



1867. Old walls on the Burnley Road, very sparingly. — 

 1888. Near Mount Skip, Hebden Bridge ; and Scout, 



Hareley Wood. — T. Stansfield ; Lees' Flora. 

 Gone from the Burnley Road, and not reported in recent 



years from any locality, except Heptonstall Eaves, where 



Mr. J. Needham found a single plant in 1896, on a wall 



on which it was formerly more abundant. 



[Asplenium viride, Huds. — 41. Green Spleenwort. 



Native, extinct. Highland type. P. July-September. 

 1775. Towards the top of Ogden Clough, along with the 

 Black (Spleenwort). — /. Bolton, 



