BOTANT. 166 



290 Sweet Mountain Fern. Lastrea Oreopteris. July. 

 IVIountainous and heathy places at upper Shibden and Ogden, 



common. 



291 Male Fern. L. Filix-mas. June. 

 Hedge banks and woods in Shibden, very common' throughout the 



parish. 



292 Broad Shield-fern. L. dilatata. ' August. 

 Banks, and particularly in woods, common in Shibden, and 



throughout the parish. 



293 Common Prickly Shield-fern. Polystichum aculeatum. July. 

 Sheltered woods and hedge banks ; very fine in a deep clough at 



Upper Shibden. 



294 Angular-leaved Shield-fern. P. Angulare. July. 

 In the same locality as P. aculeatum, where many interesting 



forms may be met with. 



295 Close-leaved Prickly Shield-fern. P. lobatum. July. 



Shady hedge-banks at Upper Shibden. 



296 Bladder-fern. Cystopteris fragilis, July. 

 "Wet Rocks and walls, very sparingly on the left side of one of 



the streams in Upper Shibden. 



297 Lady-fern. Athyrium Filix foemina. June. 



Wet shady woods and banks in Shibden, common. 



298 Black Spleenwort. Asplenium Adiantum-nigrum. June. 



Old wall on the Burnley road, near Halifax, very sparingly. 



299 Green spleenwort. A. viride. June. 

 Near the great rock in Ogden clough, one plant was observed in 1866. 



300 Wall Rue. A. Riita-muraria. May. 



Rocks and old walls ; on the bridge at EUand. 



301 Hart's tongue. Scolopendrium vulgare. July. 

 Damp shady places, occurs at Upper Shibden, rather sparingly, and 



very fine on a Scar at Mytholm, near Hipperholme. 



302 Northern Hard-fern. Blechnum boreale. Jxdj, 



Stony and heathy places in Shibden, and very abundant in the 

 Ogden doughs. 



303 Common Brake. Pteris aquilina. July. 



"Woods and heaths, Shibden and Ogden, common. 



304 Moon-wort. Botrychium lunaria. June. 



Hilly pastures at Upper Shibden, not common. 



