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company with Polypodium Dryopteris, W. Wilso7i ; plentiful in Marple wood, J. /I 

 Wood. 



Lasti-Eea Thelypteris. Newchurch-bog, near Over, where it bears fruit plentifully, 

 Pelty.pool, also near Over; Knutsford-moor and Rostherne-mere, W. Wilson, J. B. 

 Wood; Rostherne-mere, where it bears fruit only in very fine seasons, as 1842, J. 

 Sidebotham ; Wybunbury-bog, G. Pinder. 



Lastrsea Oreopteris. W. Wilson. 



Lastraea Filix-mas. W. Wilson, H. C. Watson, S. Thompson. 



Lastrffia cristata. Wybunbury-bog ; 1 should be sorry should this notice lead to 

 its extermination, G. Pinder ; 1 am indebted to Mr. Pinder for specimens, they are 

 identical with those from Norfolk, E. Newman. 



Lastrsea dilatata. W. Wilson ; Eastherne-wood, abundant, S. Thompson. 



LastrcBa spinulosa. Newchurch-bog, Pelty -pool and Knutsford-moor, W. Wilson; 

 Wybunbury-bog, G. Pinder. 



Athyrium Filix-femina. H. C. Watson ; attains a very great size in the Dingle, 

 two miles south of Warrington, W. Wilson ; lanes about Bidston, S. Thompson. 



Asplenium Adiantum-nigrum. //. C. Watson, W. Wilson: Between Woodside 

 and Oxton, very fine, S. Thompson. 



Aspleniinn Ruta-muraria. W. Wilson ; Red and Yellow Noses, S. Thompson. 



Asplenium marinum. On the rocks called the Red Noses, at New Brighton, W. 

 Wilson, H. C. Watson ; on the rocks of Hilbre island at the mouth of the river Dee, 

 on the coast of Cheshire, this species is met with in great quantities, /. Jj. Wood. 



Asplenium Trichomanes. Unfrequent; I have seen it only in the Well at Bees- 

 ton, W. Wilson. 



Scolopendrium vulgare. W. Wilson, H. C. Watson; near the toll-gate between 

 Woodside and Bidston, ^^. Thompson ; Cotterill-wood and Arden-hall, J. B. Wood. 



Osraunda regalis. Wybunbury-bog, Smethwick, near Congleton, G. Pinder ; 

 sparingly at Baguley-moor, ./. Sidebotham ; Carrington-moss, /. B. Wood. 



Botrychium Lunaria. Near Over it attains a great size, and is often branched, 

 W. Wilson ; Alderley-edge (Rev. Isaac Bell), H. C. Watson : sand-hills between 

 Egremontand New Brighton, found abundantly in 1841 by H. E. Robson, S. Thomp- 

 son; when botanizing near Over with my valued friend Mr. Wilson, in June, 1842, 

 I met with some singular deviations in this interesting plant ; one specimen had no 

 less than four fertile branches and two barren ones, springing from a common stem ; 

 on several of the pinnules of the barren frond were a number of theciE, some on their 

 plain surface, others on their edges ; many specimens had two fertile fronds generally 

 of unequal size ; they were growing in a meadow on a small declivity, in company 

 with Habenaria chlorantha, J. B. Wood. 



Ophioglossum vulgatum. W. Wihon ; Davenport and Summerfield, G. Pinder ; 

 Alderly and Tranmere, H. C. Watson. 



Lycopodium clavatum. Delamere forest, W. Wilso7i. 



Lycopodium inundatum. Oak-mere and Baguley-moor, W. Wilson. 



Lycopodium Sclago. Risly-moss near Warrington, W. Wilson. 



Pilularia globulifera. Bartington-heath &c. W. Wilson. 



Equisetum hyemale. Lally's wood near Over, W. Wilson. 



Equisetiim variegalum. Sands at New Brighton, H. C. Watson. 



Equisetum palustre. H. C. Watson ; very abundant ; the variety pnlystachion was 

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