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throughout the world. The first (regalis) is found from Sweden to 

 Siberia, in Japan, the Azores, the Barbary States, on the Himalayas 

 and the Neilgheeries, at Bombay, Hong-kong, in Cochin China, the 

 Mascarene Islands, Zambesi-land, Angola, Natal, Cape Colony, 

 Canada as far as the Saskatchewan country, south to Rio Janeiro. 

 The second is found in Newfoundland, the Dominion of Canada, 

 throughout the United States, and on the Himalayas to an altitude 

 of ten thousand feet. The third is found from Newfoundland and 

 Canada to Mexico, in the West Indies, Guatemala, New Granada 

 and the Organ Mountains of Brazil; also in Japan, Manchuria, 

 and the Amoor country. 



There are three other species of this genus, found on the eastern 

 side of Asia. 



The following quotation is from William Black's novel Briseis, 

 chapter IV. 



"Briseis, I want to tell you something. . . . When I was quite 

 a lad, I discovered among the slopes above Gourock a little dell 

 in which the Osmunda regalis was growing in great luxuriance. 

 The Osmunda is rare on that coast and and I was proud of 

 my discovery and kept the secret to myself; and many a time I used 

 to go and sit in the little hollow, under the birch trees, and listen to 

 the trickling of the burn. And then well, you see, I was foolish 

 and romantic and my only love in those days was the hillside 

 I took it into my head that I would spend a night in that dell with 

 the Osmundas as my only companions. It was not a cold night 

 either; but I found the ground very hard and damp before I could 

 get to sleep. I remember the stars through the birch trees overhead. 

 Well, the weather must have changed during the night; for when I 

 woke, just about daybreak, there was a fine, thin rain falling, and 

 I was wet through to the skin, and shivering with cold. And I was 

 miles and miles away from home. You may guess what followed 

 rheumatic fever and all its worst consequences; so that from that 

 hour my life was broken." [Read chapters I and IV for the pathetic 

 story of Sir John Elliott.] 



The following quotation is from chapter XVIII of Smiles' Robert 

 Dick, a very interesting biography of an interesting naturalist. 



