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Bell Salter, who has not been able to rediscover it for this year or two 

 past, owing, he supposes, to the draining which has been carried on 

 there, making the ground too dry for its existence. He thinks it pro- 

 bable that the species was once much more frequent, perhaps even 

 abundant, at Apse Castle, before the grass-walks were cut through 

 the wood, and the locality was moister and more shady than at present. 

 On a low, wet bank by the road-side between Guildford and Lynn 

 Farm, sparingly, Sept. 17, 1843, Id. !! The Wilderness .? Mr. Albert 

 Hambrough, 1846, but I cannot find it there, and I suspect L. The- 

 lypteris was inadvertently mistaken for it, as I have seen no specimens 

 from thence. It certainly occurs in the New Forest, as I have myself 

 gathered it there on an excursion with Dr. Salter into Dorsetshire, 

 about eight years ago ; the locality has escape me, but I think it was 

 somewhere near Lyndhurst. Near Southampton, Mr. Lambert in 

 old Bot. Guide. Very likely not unfrequent on boggy heaths in the 

 recesses of the New Forest, a most interesting tract, that has been 

 very little explored botanically. 



Lastrea Filix-mas. In moist, shady woods, thickets and hedges ; 

 very frequent over the greater part of the county and Isle of Wight. 

 Growing in beautiful tufts in the park at Swainston. 



L. cristata may possibly be found hereafter in a county abounding 

 so much in bog and marsh as do many parts of Hampshire. 



Lastrea spinulosa. In damp hedge-bottoms, and on shady banks, 

 in woods and lanes, &c. ; frequent in the Isle of Wight, and I believe 

 throughout the county. Abundant on the Wilderness. In the dell 

 at Apse Castle, called Tinker's Hole, in plenty, 



Lastrea dilaiata. In similar places with the last; not, 1 think, 

 unfrequent, although not now prepared to give its distribution in the 

 county. Near Ninham Farm, by Ryde, &c. Is it distinct from L. 

 spinulosa ? 



L. foenisecii, which, under the title of L. recurva, has caused a vast 

 deal of ink shed, to little or no purpose, may be a native of the 

 county. The specific name of the species is not very intelligible in 

 connexion with a fern, a tribe of plants seldom found in the way of 

 the mowei-'s scythe in the hay-field. 



Polystichiim aculeatum. Very common on hedge-banks, in lanes 

 and borders of woods, &c., in the Isle of Wight, and probably 

 throughout the county. 



Polystichum lobalum. In like places with the last, of which it is 

 probably merely a form, but the British species of the genus are 

 inextricably confused, and I confess to having paid them hitherto 



