FILICES. 393 



VI. Near Ivy bridge ; Julian, Keys, Fl. iii. 293. Holbeton. Wort- 

 hill, Ermington. Between Strood and Modbury. 



863. N. Oreopteris, Pi-esl. Sweet Mountain Fern. 



Native ; in woods, copses, and other bushy places ; also on banks 

 on and about commons and moors. Locally common. June 

 to August. 

 c. I. Between Polbathick and Hessenford ! ; Balkwill, Keys, FL iii. 

 291. Wood betw^een Seaton and Treloy. Notter Valley, near 

 Clapper and New Bridges. Between St. Mellion and Pillaton. 

 Viverdon DoAvn. 

 II. Harewood ; Keys, ih. Danescombe. St. Dominick. Between 

 Ashland and Harrowbarrow. 

 D. III. Roborough Down; Phyt. vi. N.S. 355. Between Blaxton and 

 Inchers. Near Hatch Mill. 

 IV. Shaugh Bridge ; between Cann Quarry and Bickleigh Bridge, 

 left bank of the Plym ; near Ubbaton, Bickleigh ; Keys, Fl. 

 iii. 291. Woods of the Plym Valley, and near Derriford, Egg 

 Buckland. Hemerdon. Ne^vTiham. Meavy. Torey Valley, 

 below Lee Moor. Lower Whittleborough. Ringmoor Down. 

 V. Near Dalamore and Slade, &c., Corn wood. About Broadall 



Brook, between Cornwood and Dartmoor. 

 VI. Ivybridge ! ; Keys, ih. In the Erme Valley, on Dartmoor. 

 Occurs nowhere within three miles of the town of Plymouth. Most 

 frequent in elevated w^ooded and semi-moorland tracts ; and is found m 

 little hollows and bushy spots on the wilder parts of Dartmoor. When 

 very luxuriant I have seen fronds nearly four feet long. At some of the 

 stations named it grows in profusion. 



POLYPODITJM, L. 



864. P. vulg-are, L. Common Polypody. 



Native ; on the mossy or decaymg branches of trees, on rocks, 

 banks, and walls. Very common. September to November. 

 Area general. 



■ Occurs on walls close to the town of Plymouth, though here generally 



of small size. 



865. P. Phegopteris, L. Beech Polypody. 



Native ; on banks and in rocky or stony places in moorland or 

 semi-moorland localities. Rare and local. June to September. 

 D. IV. Sheepstor ; Moore, Hist. Brit. Ferns, 311 : I have seen it m that 

 neighbourhood. Valley of the Meavy; Rev. J. M. Chanter, 

 Bavensh. Fl. 81. Shaugh Bridge ; Gould., Keys, Fl. iii. 290. 

 V. Cornwood, above the waterfall ; Holmes, Keys, ih. Valley of the 

 Yealm, on Dartmoor, 1879. 



