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very little attention on that account. Extremely rare in the Isle of 

 Wight. A single root on a bank close to Coopers, near Bembridge, 

 Dr. T. Bell Salter, 1841—1842 !!! Bank on the left-hand side of the 

 road going from the lodge at East-Cowes Castle towards Whipping- 

 ham, Miss G. E. Kilberbee ! The specimen from Covves, in Miss 

 Kilderbee's herbarium, Dr. Salter considers a lonchitidiform variety 

 of P. angulare, but the frond, which exhibits no fructification, has the 

 narrow, lanceolate outline and attenuated base that distinguish P. 

 lobatum ; the basal pair of pinnules, too, of each pinna is very 

 unequal, and the pinnules themselves decurrent almost throughout, a 

 very few of the inferior ones on the lowermost pinnae only being as 

 distinctly petiolate as in the true P. angulare. The plant appears, 

 besides, to possess the rigidity of texture characteristic of the genuine 

 P. lobatum. Common in the shady lanes about Selborne, Dr. T. Bell 

 Salter!!! 



Polystichum angulare. In similar places with the four preceding ; 

 abundant throughout the island, and I believe the rest of the county. 

 Stubbington ; Uplands ; Cattisfield, &c. : Mr. W. L. Notcutt. 



Cystopteris fragilis, there can be scaixely a doubt, will some day 

 be found in Hampshire ; it should be looked for on old walls, 

 buildings and rocks. 



Athyrium Filix-foemina (Asplenium Filix-foemina). On moist 

 rocks, and in wet, boggy or heathy places ; very frequent in various 

 parts of the Isle of Wight and mainland Hants. Very abundantly on 

 damp hedge-banks on the skirts of Blackpan Common and parts 

 adjacent. In the boggy valley of the Medina, by the Wilderness, &c. 

 Very fine in a little damp lane at Whitwell, not far from the church. 

 Very luxuriant in Shanklin Chine, Rev. G. E. Smith !!! Common 

 on boggy heaths and by streams in the New Forest. Titchfield Com- 

 mon, Mr. W. L. Notcutt. 



Asplenium Adiantum-nigrum. On moist walls, rocks, and especially 

 on shady hedge-banks ; frequent in most parts of the county and 

 island. Near Ninham and Smallbrook Farms. Edge of Quarr 

 Copse, along the Newport Road. Very abundant in the lane leading 

 from Kite Hill into Firestone Copse, and between Upton House and 

 Upton Farm, on the hedge-bank nearly opposite the former, as also 

 in various other places about Ryde, common. Bordwood Heath 

 and hedge-banks about Godshill, plentifully. About Southampton, 

 and in most parts of Hampshire, I have remarked it of frequent 

 occurrence on hedge-banks, its most usual situation with us. 



Asplenium Trichomanes. On walls, rocks, ruins, churches, dry 



