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FILICES. 



961. L. Filix-mas, Presl. Male Fern. 



Native ; in woods and on hedge-banks, common. 



VI. VII. 



962. L. spinulosa, Presl. 



Native ; in wet thickets and bogs, rare. 



S. Between the hummocks in boggy ground on 

 Mendip, near the Mineries. Leigh Wood, 1881 ; 

 Bev. W. H. Painter. Peat-moors in the extreme 

 south. • VIII. IX. 



963. L. dilatata, Presl. 



Native ; in woods and thickets, rather common. 



VIII. IX. 



POLYSTICHUM, Roth. 

 964. P. aculeatum, Both. 



Native ; on hedge-banks and in woods. Frequent, but 



no longer to be found in some of the recorded 



stations. 

 G. Blaise Castle Woods ; Herb. Powell. Hanham 



and Bitton ; Mr. T. B. Flower. Stapleton Wood ; 



and hedges near the Zoological Gardens, Clifton; 



Swete, Fl. 96. 

 S. Leigh Woods ; St. Anne's Wood ; Kelston and 



Claverton ; Mr. T. B. Flower. Dundry Hill ; Herb. 



Stephens. Hallatrow. Portishead. Damp hedge- 

 banks close to the village of Compton Martin. 



Lanes near Great Elm. 

 Var. /3 Aspidium lobatum, Sw. 

 G. Blaise Castle Woods ; Herb. Powell. Shirehamp- 



ton ; Mr. T. B. Flower. 

 S. Sparingly in Leigh Woods ; at Bourton and on 



Dundry Down; Br. Thwaites. In several places 



