134 THE FLORA 0F HALIFAX. 



Rare : still at Heptonstall Eaves ; now for many years on the 

 high wall of the Shay in Hunger Hill, Halifax ; garden 

 wall, Brearley Hall ; brick wall near Stocks Hall, My- 

 tholmroyd (/. Necdham), and probably one or two other 

 places. 

 Athyrium Filix-foemina, Roth. — no. Lady Fern. 

 Native. British type. P. July-September. 



1785. In rocky moist places, beside Lee Beck, near Halifax, 

 plentifully. — /. Bolton ; Fil. Brit. 



1844. Mill House Clough, Luddenden. — Herb S. King. 



1862. A score of varieties or sports from Todmorden, 

 Hebden Bridge, &c, are named, principally by A. & T. 

 Stansfield in Midi's Flora. 



1867. Shibden, common. — /. Walker. 



Very common and abundant in the woods and cloughs. 

 Lees says that "hardly a tithe of the type-forms once 

 existing in the Calder Valley cloughs, are now to be 

 found." But there are forms enough still, about Hebden 

 Bridge, if anyone thought it worth while to distinguish 

 them. In addition to those named below, fissidens, Moore, 

 Foxtoni, Lowe, and ovatum, have been noted there recently, 

 by the Hebden Bridge botanists, /. Necdham and H. Pickles. 



Var. rhseticum, Roth. 



1862. Vale of Todmorden (T. Stansfield) ; Heb- 

 den Bridge ; Halifax. — MialVs Flora. 



1888. Todmorden. — A. Stansfield and F. A. Lees. 



Pecket Wood, &c, about Hebden Bridge. 

 Var. molle, Roth. 



1862. Hebden Bridge. — 5. Gibson; MialVs Flora. 



Frequent about Hebden Bridge : Crimsworth Dean, 



Pecket Wood, High Greenwood, &c. 

 Var. incisum, HorTm. 



1862. Todmorden. — A. Stansfield ; MialVs Flora. 



Rare, in the Hebden Valley. 



Scolopendrium vulgare, Sym. — 101. Hart's-tongue. 



Native. British type. P. July- August. 

 1775. In Toad-holes in Sowerby ; Warley Clough, towards 



the top ; in Beestones, near Rastrick. — -/. Bolton. 

 1785. In a little woody brow, called Toad Holes, in Sowerby 



