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Blechnum horeale. 

 Pteris aquilina 

 Polypodium vulgare 

 Polystichum aculeaium 



angulare 



Lastr(Ba Oreopteris 



Filix-mas 



multijlora (Newman, dilatata of authors) 



Athyrium Filix-foemina 



var. iiriguum 



Asplenium Adiantum-nigrum 



Ruta-muraria 



Trichomanes 



Scolopendrium vulgare. 



Now with the exception of Athyrium Filix-fcemina, var. irriguum, 

 there is not in this list a single fern but what I have heretofore found 

 wild in my own parish of AUesley, along with at least two other spe- 

 cies besides. To the above inconsiderable list of not uncommon 

 species, 1 perhaps might be justified in adding Osmunda regalis; for 

 true it is, I saw two separate plants of it growing in a healthy state 

 near the stream in Sir W. Herries's grounds, on the west Lyn ; but 

 to my eye it was at once evident that these were not indigenous, but 

 had been introduced by the hand of man ; and, what confirmed me 

 in this opinion, not a single specimen besides was observed in any 

 other part of either of the glens. I have formerly seen this noble 

 fern in South Devon, particularly at Dawlish, in great vigour; but I 

 have not observed it anywhere during my late rambles in the north- 

 ern parts of the county. 1 met with no species of Lycopodium in the 

 Lynmouth glens ; though from information derived from one of the 

 women who attend visiters with donkeys, I have no doubt that L. 

 clavatum at least, is found there, or in the neighbourhood. I have 

 stated already that Polystichum aculeaium grew in great abundance 

 and luxuriance; but its near ally, P. lobatum, does not occur at Lyn- 

 mouth, so far as I observed. This last fern, though by far the more 

 common of the two species in our Warwickshire lanes in my own im- 

 mediate neighbourhood, appears to be much less generally distributed 

 than aculeatum and angulare. Lastraea recurva {Newman) is a local 

 species, and accordingly I was not surprised at the time by not find-- 

 ing it in the glens of the West and East Lyn. Subsequently, how- 

 ever, I have met with it rather sparingly in a valley called Chamber- 

 combe, about a mile from Ilfracombe, and also more plentifully in 



