THE OBLONG WOODSIA. 



Woodsia ilvensis.* R. BEOWN. 



The genus Woodsia (so called from Mr. Joseph 

 Woods) is the British representative of the group 

 Peranemeae. Of the two British species, the Oblong 

 Woodsia and the Blunt-leaved or alpina, only the first 

 is found in the Lake Country. Even that is very rare. 

 It was first discovered in 1846, in a small quantity, on 

 one of the Westmorland 

 mountains, by Mr. Hud- 

 dart, who afterwards found 

 some hundred plants near 

 Scawfell, in Cumberland. 

 The next year other sta- 

 tions were found in West- 

 morland by Mr. Huddart, 

 both alone and in company 

 with Mr. Clowes. In some 

 of these places were only 

 a few plants, but in one a 

 great many and very fine. 

 The Oblong Woodsia is especially a mountain Fern, 

 an annual, dying down to the ground in winter and 

 coming up again in spring. Its caudex is short, erect 



* Acrostichum ilvense (Linnaus), Polypodium ilvensc, Aspidium 

 rufidulnm, Lastrea rufidula, &c. 



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