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lata grows amongst the furze on the Rubury hill, which is a ridge of altered Caradoc 

 sandstone flanking the Bromsgrove Lickey. The ALberley hills present more variety 

 of soil and aspect, and consequently afi"ord better botanizing ground. At a spring- 

 head near Abberley church, Oreopteris and Filix-femina are in tolerable abundance ; 

 the brake is plentiful on the hills, and in a hedge near the Hundred-house, Polypodi- 

 um vulgare and Polystichmu angulare occur sparingly. Lastrsea spinulosa grows near 

 Great Witley, and Equisetum Tehnateia is plentiful in a quarry within sight of the 

 Hundred-house, conspicuous on account of its vertical beds of limestone. 



Near Malvern, Lastrisea dilatata and Equisetum sylvaticum abound in the woods, 

 and Polystichum angulare on the banks of small ravines in the Wenlock shale. Pte- 

 ris and Lomaria are also on the high ground, and Ceterach on the church. The 

 Malvern hills are a range of trap rock, from 6 to 14,000 feet in height, and on their 

 eastern flank which is least exposed to wind and sun and covered in many places with 

 a talus of fallen fragments of rock, there is excellent accommodation for ferns. Po- 

 lypodium vulgare, Lastrasa dilatata and Filix-mas, Athyrium Filix-femina, Asplenium 

 Trichomanes and Adiantum-nigrum are abundant, some of them very nearly to the 

 summit of the hills. The principal flowers in the thickets were Campanula Trache- 

 lium, Vicia sylvatica, Chlora perfoliata, and the betony and foxglove ; and upon the 

 stone walls. Cotyledon and Cardamine Impatiens. Mr. W. gathered Asplenium Tri- 

 chomanes again on the walls of the Cathedral-precinct at Gloucester, and on the walls 

 and bridge near Crickhowell and Brecon, Ruta-muraria and Ceterach are abundant. 

 Mr. W. believed these walls to be built with the limestone occurring in the middle of 

 the old red sandstone series. Filix-femina is plentiful on the banks of the Wye and 

 Towey. At Caermarthen Mr. W. saw Adiantum-nigrum and Trichomanes on many 

 of the stone walls, and on the walls of Lord Dynevor's park near Llandeilo, the Poly- 

 pody grew so luxuriantly as to make him very desirous of ascertaining whether it could 

 be the Cambricum, which he had never seen or heard of growing except in gardens. 



Passing over from Pembroke to Waterford, Dungarvan and Youghal, the aspect 

 of the country is entirely changed. Instead of the rivers winding through rich corn- 

 valleys and deep woods, one dreary expanse of grey rocks and purple heather is all 

 that meets the eye often for many miles. Occasionally the country is intersected by 

 deep glens, but they are seldom wooded; and both in the low boggy ground and ou 

 the hills, cultivation seems scarcely to produce any effect in softening the air of deso- 

 lation spread all around. In the stone walls bordering the roads and separating the 

 fields Filix-mas and Filix-femina are everywhere seen ; Scolopendrium, Pteris, Lo- 

 maria and Lastrsea dilatata are also very general. In the dry stony fields the brilliant 

 spikes of Lythrum Salicaria seemed to have taken the place of the foxglove and nettle- 

 bell of our English hedge-rows, and by its abundance and beauty attracted the atten- 

 tion and admiration of Mr. Woodward's fellow-travellers. At Glenbower near Youghal 

 HYmenophyllum Tonbridgense grows most luxuriantly, and Trichomanes speciosum 

 is also said to have been found. During his stay in Cork, Dr. Thos. Power took Mr. 

 W. to see the habitat of the Trichomanes in the Temple-Michael glen, at the top of 

 Glen-mire. There is very little of the plant, and it is not known to fructify. In this 

 glen there is sometimes a low scanty growth of the " Irish oak," not nearly so conspi- 

 cuous however as Euphorbia Hibernica, Bartsia viscosa and Gnaphalium rectum, and 

 Carex pulicaris grows in the glen and its vicinity ; and here Mr. W. first met with 

 Lastrtea dumetorum growing along with L. dilatata, and presenting its usually very 

 distinct appearance. Hymeuophylluui grows scantily in this glen, and from exposure 



