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Ceterach officinanim. On the rocks above Malham-tarn near Settle, J. Tatham, 

 S. Gibson ; on the old walls of Kirklees-park, near Halifax, .S'. Gibson. 



f Trichomanes speciosum. Found by Dr. Richardson at Belbank, scarce half a 

 mile from Bingley, at the head of a remarkable spring, and nowhere else 

 (Ray, Syn. 128, pi. iii. fig. 3) ; in September, 1782, I found this rare plant in 

 Belbank-wood near Bingley, the place mentioned in Ray's Synopsis (Mr. 

 Teesdale, in his Supplement to 'Plantse Eboracenses,' published in the 'Trans- 

 actions of the Linnean Society of London) ; Trichomanes brevisetum was cer- 

 tainly found near Bingley by Bolton, I have seen a specimen from that place, 

 S. Gibson ; it was figured in ' English Botany,' pi. 1417 [1445, new edit.] 

 from specimens collected in this locality, but I understand it does not now ex- 

 ist there, R. Spruce; it was figured by Bolton from a specimen from Belbank- 

 wood near Bingley; the spring-head near which it was found is now walled in 

 to supply the town of Bingley with water, but the wood is very large, and it 

 is very likely to be somewhere else in the neighbourhood, J. Backhouse, jun, 

 Hymeuophyllum Wilsoni. Turner-clough, seven miles from Halifax on the Old- 

 ham road, <S'. Gibson ; rocks near Lower Harrogate (J. Backhouse jun.), R. Spruce; 

 Greenfield, W. Wilson. 



Hymeuophyllum Tunbiidgense. Near Todmorden, S. Gibson ; on rocks by a 

 stream running down to the sea at a place called Hayburn-wyke, near Whitby (Mr. 

 Peterkin), R. Spruce ; near Halifax and at Greenfield, W. Wilson. 



Osmunda regalis. Rare about Sheffield, more plentiful in the Doncaster district, 

 J. Hardy ; Ayton-forge near Scarborough, S. Gibson; Askliam-bogs; Langwith-moor; 

 Wheldrake-lane (J. Backhouse jun.) ; bog near Haigh-park windmill, Knaresborough 

 (R. B. Powell), R. Spruce ; Beck-hole near Whitby, Baines^s Yorkshire Flora. 



Botrychium Lunaria. Widely distributed in the Sheffield district, but never oc- 

 curring in any quantity, J. Hardy ; abundant in Tarn-field pasture near Settle, /. 

 Tatham; Midgley-moor, S. Gibson; near Halifax, in dry fields, not very plentiful (R. 

 Leyland), H. C. Watson ; very fine in pastures at Ganthorpe near Castle Howard ; 

 near Coneysthorpe ; Terrington-carr ; Knavesmire, York ; wood near Earswick ; Low 

 Harrogate (J. Backhouse jun.), R. Spruce; Airyholme nearHovingham, above the wood 

 bridge that crosses the Tees to Lower Cronkley, and at Moor-riggs in Teesdale ; Co- 

 therstone-fell ; on the Hambleton hills, frequent; near Whitby; Halves-farm pastures 

 near Knaresborough ; near Richmond ; Baines^s Yorkshire Flora. 



Ophioglossum vulgatum. Common in the Sheffield district, J. Hardy ; common 

 in many places, S. Gibson; Round Howe near Richmond (James Ward), H. C. Wat- 

 son ; abundant in old pastures and woods around Castle Howard, where I have seen 

 plants six inches high, growing amongst Equiseium fluviatile ; not unfrequent near 

 York, R. Spruce ; damp meadows near York, abundant, S. Thompson ; Ganthorpe- 

 moor, Langwith, near York, H. Ibbotson. 



Lycopodium clavatum. High moors five miles from Sheffield, abundant, J. Har- 

 dy ; very sparingly on moors in the vale of York, as on Stensall, Stockton-forest, &c. 

 but abundant on all the moors in the north riding, R. Spruce; Stockton-common near 

 York (J. Backhouse, jun.), .S*. Thompson; Terrington-carr (H. Ibbotson to J. Storey), 

 H. C. Watson ; Midgley-moor, S. Gibson ; common on elevated moors, H. Ibbotson. 

 Lycopodium alpinum. High moors five miles from Sheffield, not common, /. 

 Hardy ; very common on Cronkley-fell and many other places in Teesdale (J. Back- 

 house jun.), Hutton Bushel moor, near Scarborough (Mr. Peterkin), R. Spruce; very 



