ol4 TltANSACTlONS AND rROCEEDlNGS OF THE [Sess. Lxvil. 



eradication, it is difficult to decide." Many good Scottish 

 botanists have never seen P. angulare growing. I show 

 specimens gathered forty years ago by Mr. P. Neill Fraser 

 of this Society, on Great Cumbrae Island, where I fear it 

 is now quite extinct, and also from Loch lianza, Arran, in 

 which island I am doubtful if it is now to be found. I 

 also show specimens obtained many years ago at Inverkip, 

 Renfrewshire, where, and along the coast to Skelmorlie, it 

 used to be plentiful. Dr. Thomas Scott, F.L.S., records it 

 from above Greenock, and Mr. D. A. Boyd, from Portiu- 

 cross, Ayrshire ; and Mr. John Smith, Kilwinning, also is 

 acquainted with' three spots in Ayrshire where it occurs. 

 I show a specimen obtained by myself last year in the 

 extreme south of Ayrshire. 



Perhaps the most interesting of the sheets shown is 

 that of specimens gathered by me in the woods at Skipness, 

 in the Kintyre peninsula, in 1899. This record of the 

 plant, with the exception of one from Lochgilphead, noticed 

 in Moore's " Nature-Printed Ferns," published forty-four 

 years ago, and of which there seems to have been no 

 subsequent confirmation, is, according to Professor Trail, 

 the only record from Argyllshire, or from any part of the 

 west of Scotland north of Arran. Mr. Charles T. Druery, 

 F.L.S., President of the Pteridological Society, who has seen 

 my Skipness specimens, says, as his label attached shows : 

 " This is P. angulare, beyond a doubt, despite the locality." 



The only other counties in Scotland from which 

 P. angulare seems to be definitely recorded, and which, 

 with one exception (viz. the first), are given in Professor 

 Trail's " Topographical Botany of Scotland," are Kirkcud- 

 bright, in the parish of Kells ; Wigtown, — these both as 

 recorded by our Associate Member, Mr. James M' Andrew; 

 Roxburgh ; and Berwick, at Pease Dean, where Rev. Dr. 

 Paul states it to be abundant ; and there is also an old 

 doubted record from Midlothian. 



In Ireland, which seems to have a congenial soil and 

 atmosphere for the growth of the plant, we find it 

 occurring, according to Pra^ger's " Irish Topographical 

 Botany," in every county, and in England it is also 

 widely distributed, being recorded from Cornwall and 

 Northumberland, and from many intervening counties. 



