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as described by Babington, has deep green pinnse and purple rachls ; a 

 third, var. moUe, has hght gxeen flat fronds, of much smaller size than 

 those of the preceding one : it occurs here and there in lanes. 



CETEEACH, WiUd. 



854. C. oflELcinaruni, Willd. Scaly Spleenv:wt. 



Native ; on old walls ; more rarely on rocks or stony banks. 

 Rather common. April to November. 



c. I. Sparingly on a wall between Wacker and Denabole Mills. A 

 few plants on a wall at St. Mellion. One on a wall at Latch- 

 brook, St. Stephens. 

 II. On the bridge over the Tamar (Newbridge) ; Jones, Tour, 40. 

 Calstock ; Pentilhe Castle ; Moore, Hist. Brit. Ferns, 283. 

 Torpoint I ; Saltash ! ; Keys, Fl. iii. 299. Seen in several 

 places within a mile or two of Torpomt, as well as very near 

 the village. Southdown. Between Penters Cross and Cargreen. 

 Halton. Cotehele. Gunnislake. 



D. III. Near Blaxton ! ; Keys, ih. Near Pounds, Pennycross. Neigh- 

 bourhood of St. Budeaux and Saltash Passage, in considerable 

 quantity. In plenty on a wall at Dovro. House, near Knack- 

 ersknowle. Tamerton FoUot Lophill. Beer Alston. Wear 

 Quay. 

 IV. [Wall at the top of North Street] ; Cattedown ; Keys, S. D. Lit. 

 Chron. 268. I have two specimens which I collected from the 

 waU in North Street, Plymouth, in October, 1867, shortly after 

 which it was taken down to widen the street, and the fern was 

 all destroyed. Compton ! ; ' chui'chyard wall, Meavy ; id., Fl. 

 iii. 299. Furze HUl Lane, close to Plymouth ; a few very small 

 plants, 1880 ; known as growing there for many years past. 

 Neighbourhood of Plymstock. Saltram. Estover and near 

 Rumple, Egg Buckland. Fancy. Plympton ; a single plant 

 seen on a wall, 1868. 

 V. Yealmpton ! ; Keys, ih. ; also at Torr. Elburton. Brixton and 

 Winston, sparingly. Between the stones of a hedge-bank 

 between Smithalee and Lee Mill Bridge. Lee Mill Bridge, 

 rather sparingly, 1879. 

 VI. Ivybridge ; Keys, ih. ; seen near there by the Exeter Road. 

 Ermmgton. On waUs by a farm-house near Caton. Modbury. 

 Absent from the colder and wild open tracts. It occurs mostly on walls, 



and when elsewhere nearly always appears on some artificially formed, 



not natui-al, bank. Even in the two or three instances in which I have 



seen it on natural rock it has been on the surface of " cuttings " made 



by man. 

 First record : Jones, 1820. 



