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Winwiuk slonc-<iuany, near Warrinytcn ; my friend Mr. Wilson brouglit me two small 

 roots from that locality a short time since, for cultivation ; it is never more than two 

 or three inches high, and the pinnules arc singularly cuneatc and strongly crcnatc on 

 their edges, very much resembling the Killarney plant (figured Newman's ' British 

 Ferns,' 7()j; it produces seed in abundance; J. Ji. Wood: I am indebted both to Mr. 

 Wilson and Dr. Wood for specimens from Winwick, and can bear witness to the ac- 

 curacy of Dr. \Vood's remark on their similarity to the Killarney sj)ccimens, E. New- 

 man : the Dingle near l.iverpool (T. 15. Hall), //. C. Watson; Knot's Hole, the Din- 

 gle, .S'. Thompson; Heysham and Silverdalc, S. Sbnpso)2. 



Asplenium Trichomanes. Kant-clough, near Burnley, iS. Gibson : near Burton, 

 north of Lancaster, W. Wilson : Marsden, Clitheroe, and Stoneyhurst college-walls, 

 G. Pindar : Greenfield, ./. Sidebotham : near Lancaster, common, S. Simpson : com- 

 mon near Coniston, M. Bcever ; this is very sparingly distribuled in the neiglil)i)iirh()od 

 of Manchester, and is always very dwarf and poor, J. Ji. Wood. Var. ^. incistim. — 

 Kant-clough, near Burnley, .S'. Gibson. 



Asplenium viride. Dulesgate; it is said to grow in the quarries at Staley, but T 

 have not seen it, J. Sidcbolham. Var j3. rnmosum ; Dulesgate, Var. y. lariniainin, 

 mihi, frond deeply laciniated. Dulesgate, >S. Gibson. 



Scolopendrium vnlgare. Sheden-eloiigh, Kant-clough and other places, S. Gibson: 

 Burton-wood, Fcarn-hcad Vc, near \Varrington, W. Wilson : common, G. Pindrr : 

 not uncommon, Ardcn-hall moat, coal-pits about Anlen ]\Lnplc, and the variety cris- 

 ;)M?H is found in Cotteril-clough, J. Sidcbolham : Penketh, S. Thompson: only once 

 found near Coniston in 1841, on the wall of a water-course near Tent-lodge, M. Bee- 

 ver ; Bam ford-wood near Manchester, /. li. Wood. 



Ceterach ollicinarum. Near Kellet, north of Lancaster; I have credible informa- 

 tion also that it grows near West Houghton, W. Wilson : a single plant in the Liver- 

 pool botanic garden, from Club-moor, three miles from Liverpool, .S'. Thompson : near 

 Lancaster, ^. Siinpson. 



Hymenophyllyum Wilsoni. Thevilly near Burnley, .S'. Gibson : Old INIan moun- 

 tain, G Binder, M. Beever : sparingly in caves at Greenfield, J. Sidebotham : near 

 Lancaster, very common, <S'. Simpson ; Rakc-hey Common, near Todmorden (R. Ley- 

 land), //. C. Watson; on hills near Bury, J. B. Wood. 



Ilymcnophyllum Tunbridgense. Cliviger, .S'. Gibson: sparingly in caves at Green- 

 field, J. Sidebotham : Coniston, )V. Siinpson. 



Osmunda regalis. Chilburn, near Todmorden, .S'. Gibson : Risly-moss and in a 

 lane near Orford, one mile from Warrington, W. Wilson : I^ittle Langdale, in the 

 lake district, G. Finder : sparingly at Bowden-moss, ./. Sidebotham .- near Lancas- 

 ter, -S'. Simpson ; near Coniston, in boggy situations, M. Hecver ; Heyshnm (.f. 'J'at- 

 ham to Bot. Soc. Loud.), //. C. Watson ; not unfrequent in bogs, Chat-moss; in the 

 neighbourhood of Southport I observed this " royal fern " to be very abundant, and 

 attaining a most immense size, many plants exceeding ten feet in height, ./. Ji. Wood. 



Botrychium Lunaria. Chilburn, >S'. Gibson: near Newton, Southport (Dr. Wood\ 

 W. Wilson : common in the upland pastures about Oldham, very fine and luxuriant 

 at Reddish, ./. Sidebotham : near Lancaster, S. Simpson ; on the common between 

 Bootle and Crosby, P called Seaforth Common, FJ. C. Watson ; a conimnn plant on 

 our neighbouring hills, ./". li. Wood. 



Oidiioglossum vulgatuni. <S'. Gibson : Woolstonc and (iate-wharf, near Warring, 

 ton, W. Wilson : rather common in Reddish-vale, meadows near the river 'J amc &c. 



