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small plants three or four inches high, which never seem to grow 
larger ;? and at least half a dozen roots in the Moulin Huet 
Waterlane, where years ago it used to be fairly plentiful. 
(Polystichum aculeatum, Roth. In 47. Sarn. this fern is noted 
for Guernsey, without specified locality, on the authority of Mr. 
H. O. Carré. I suspect this is an error, seeing that P. angulare is 
not recorded. In Normandy the latter species is extremely common, 
especially in La Manche, but P. aculeatum is absent.) 
Athyrium Filix-foemina, Roth. Lady Fern. 
Native. First record: Gosselin, 1815. 
Generally distributed and common. Very fine in some of the 
cliff valleys in the south. In 1882 Mr. Derrick exhibited at a 
meeting of the Guernsey Society of Natural Science ‘a tasselled 
variety called mu/tifidum, which he had gathered some years 
previously from a plant growing in Grande Mare. 
Asplenium lanceolatum, Huds. Lanceolate Spleenwort. 
Native. First found: Gosselin, 1788. 
Common throughout the island, but less so than the following 
‘species, with which it often grows. Very fine plants are occasionally 
found in rock-crevices on the cliffs, and in some of the hedgebanks 
at St. Saviour’s. In Gosselin’s herbarium this species is intermixed 
with A. Adiantum-nigrum. Var. microdon, Moore. This variety, 
which bears a striking resemblance to A. marinum, was found in 
Guernsey in 1855 by Miss Wilkinson, and subsequently in other 
stations in the island by Miss Mansell and Mr. C. Jackson. It grew 
intermixed with the type at some distance from the sea. I possess 
two fronds taken from a root found at St. Peter’s in 1885: but the 
locality was kept secret, and the plant has not been seen by others, 
though often searched for. If this variety grows only inland, it may 
be extinct, but if it also occurs on the coast it would readily be 
passed over as A. marinum. 
Asplenium Adiantum-nigrum, L. Black Spleenwort. 
Native. First found: Gosselin, 1788. 
Very common in hedgebanks, and on rocks and old walls. In 
Gosselin’s herbarium specimens labelled 4. adiantum-nigrum include 
both this species and the last. 
The Guernsey name of this fern is Capé//aire, but the term is 
also applied to any of the smaller species which cannot be classed 
under the name of Fouazd/e. 
Asplenium Trichomanes, L. Maitdenhair Spleenwort. 
Native. First record: Gosselin, 1815. 
Rare. Always in this island on walls, never on hedgebanks. I 
have seen it in the parishes of St. Peter-Port, St. Martin’s, Forest, 
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