CETEKACIJ Ol'FICINAlU M. 373 



Found abi-oad in Holland, Switzerland, Germany, Belgium, 

 France, Spain, Italy, Portugal, Siberia, Austria, Hungary, 

 Greece, Turkey, Russia, Dalmatia, Croatia, Transylvania, the 

 Balearic Isles, Gothland, I^ral Mountains, Caucasus, Armenia, 

 India, Algiers, Madeira, Azores, Canaries, and Cape de Verd 

 Isles, Asia Minor, Frzeroum, Karabagh, Thibet, Brazil, etc. 



It is doubtful wlu;ther the larger-growing Cetvrach Cana- 

 ricnsis of" A\"illdenow is a distinct species. 



The Ceterach is said to require a rough porous soil of 

 sandy loam, with fragments of limestone, and kept rather dry. 

 The finest plants I have seen have been left to take care of 

 themselves in a damp situation and a close heavy clayey soil, 

 where the sun never shines, but exposed to the north. Growing- 

 wild thev are seldom found except on the south or sunny 

 side of a wall. 



There are but few varieties of this species that have come 

 imder my notice. 



CuENATUM, 3Ioor(', {^Sinuatum of Kinahau.) — Found at 

 Arnside Knot, Ambleside, by Miss Beover; Keswick by 

 Miss Wright; Pendle Hill, near Clitheroe, by Mr. Garnett; 

 Browsholme Hall, near Clitheroe, by myself; Crickhowel, 

 Brecknockshire, by Mr. J. li. Cobb; Devonshire by Mr. R. J. 

 Gray; Kinnoul Hill, near Berth, by Mr. T. Wilcke; in Kir- 

 cudbrightshirc by Mr. AV. G. Johnstone; Clare by Dr. Allchin; 

 Blackhead and Galway by Mr. R. Barrington; Carberry Island 

 by Major A. S. H. Lowe; and Waterford by Mr. J. R. Kinahan. 

 ]Mostly larger than the normal form, having the margins of 

 the lobes crenate-sinuatc. A form of this Fern, crcnatton-minor, 

 differs onlv in being less than the normal form with a crenate 

 margin. 



Ramosum, Moore. — Found at Ilfracombe by Mr. J. Dadds. 

 Dwarf. Length two inches, the fronds twin at the top of the 

 stipites, the branches resembling small normal fronds, occasionally 

 dilated upwards, the margin scarcely divided. 



Minimum, Loicc. (Fig. 7S0.) — Found in Devonshire. A 

 ilwarf normal form, its peculiarity consisting in the fronds not 

 exceeding two inches in length. 



