SEA SPLEENWORT. 



ASPLENIUM MARINUM of Authors. 



LOCALITIES. 



ENGLAND. . . . Durham, near Berwick-on-Tweed ; Sussex, near Hastings ; Dorsetshire, near Lyme 

 Regis ; Cornwall, near the Loganstone, at Whitsand-hay, near Falmouth, Lizard 

 Point, Scilly Islands, and St. Ives; Devonshire, Barnstaple Bay and Ilfracombe ; 

 Somersetshire, near Cleardon, in abundance on the rocks ; Cheshire, entrance of 

 the Dee, and Red Noses, near Liverpool; Lancashire, on the Mersey, near 

 Warrington, and the Dingle near Liverpool ; near Douglas, in the Isle of Man. 



WALES Caernarvonshire, Orme's Head ; Anglesea, on the South Stack ; Merionethshire, 



near Towyn ; Cardiganshire, at Aberystwith, on the Castle rock, and on the 

 Castle ; Pembrokeshire, Fiskard Bay, St. David's Head, Ramsey Island, and on 

 the coast exactly opposite ; Glamorganshire, near Neath, Mumbles Lighthouse, 

 between the Mumbles and Penyard castle, near Swansea, near Dunraven castle, 

 Barry island. 



SCOTLAND . . . Dumfriesshire, near Annan ; Wigtownshire, near Portpatrick ; Ayrshire, near Ayr ; 

 Isles of Bute and Arran ; Argyleshire, near Oban ; Isle of Mull ; on the basaltic 

 columns at Stafla ; at lona, almost covering the old cathedral ; Rosshire ; Inver- 

 nesshire, on the Murray Firth ; Aherdeenshire ; Fifeshire, abundant at Weem's 

 Cove ; Inch Keith, in the Frith of Forth; Berwickshire, at Eymouth. 



IRELAND .... County Dublin, Isle of Lambay, Hill of Howth, Black Rock, Killineybay; counties 

 Wicklow, Wexford ; County Cork, near Youghal ; County Kerry, near Tralee, 

 and at the Lakes of Killarney; County Clare, abundant on the west coast, 

 between Louphead and Kilkee, and between Kilkee and Mohir Cliffs ; County 

 Galway; South isles of Arran and Cunnemara; County Mayo, Clew bay ; Counties 

 Donegal and Derry, on the coast ; County Antrim, Giant's Causeway, Plaiskins, 

 Carrick-a-Rede, Fairhead, Red Bay, Glenarm, Larne, Carrickfergus. 



, THIS fern is, as .the name implies, essentially a marine species, 

 .rooting deeply in the fissures of cliffs, or clothing the roofs of 

 sea-caves, in the darkest recesses of which it seems to luxuriate* 

 Mr. H. Doubleday informs me that he found it .completely 



