FERN HABITATS. 25 



Ridd's adventure up this famous slide to find love and 

 Lorna in the terrible DooneGlen at its head. What lover 

 of ferns could fail to recognise, in such a spot as this which 

 we have just opened to view, a chosen abode of ferns? 

 Here, at the foot of the rocks, the Lady Fern would 

 revel in the moist and half-gloomy air. So would the 



Hartstongue and the Hard Fern. Upon the rocks 

 themselves we should find the common Maidenhair 

 Spleenwort (Asplenium trichomanes), the Wall Rue 

 (Asplenium ruta-muraria), the Common Polypody ; and 

 possibly, if careful search were made, the Mountain 

 Polypody {Polypodium phegopteris) in the moister leaf- 

 mould corners ; the Black Maidenhair Spleenwort 



