70 WHERE TO FIND FERNS. 



lowing : in Cornwall, on cliffs at Carclew, at Carrick 

 Gladden (on the sea-coast between Hayle and St. Ives), 

 and upon cliffs at Penzance ; in Devonshire, near 

 Brixham (upon the limestone rocks of Mewstone Bay), 

 on cliffs at Ilfracombe, and also at Watermouth, near 

 Ilfracombe ; in Shropshire, at Titherston Glee Hill ; in 

 Somersetshire, on the Cheddar Cliffs and on the coast at 

 Clevedon. In Wales, in the county of Glamorgan, on 

 the coast at Dunraven, on Barry Island, at East 

 Aberthaw, and at Port Kirig. In the Isle of Man, 

 between Douglas and Peel, and in Glen Meay. In 

 Scotland, in the county of Kincardine, on the banks of 

 the river Carron. In Ireland, in the counties of Clare, 

 Galway, and Kerry : in the first-named county at Bally- 

 vaughan, or between that place and Gremlin Point ; in 

 Kerry, at Cahir Conree near Tralee ; and in Galway, at 

 Lough Bulard, near Urrisberg, and at Roundstone, 

 Connemara : also in the Arran Isles. On cliffs in 

 Jersey and Guernsey Adiantum capillus-veneris has also 

 been found. 



XI. THE ANNUAL MAIDENHAIR. 



Gyninogramma leptophylla. 

 (Plate XII., Figs. 3 and 4, page 71.) 



LENGTH OF FROND. Three to nine inches. 



GENERAL DESCRIPTION. Roots fibrous. Rootstalk 

 small, tufted. Fronds annual, deciduous ; stipes from 

 one-third to one-half the length of leafy part, dark 

 brown at the base and green above ; the first fronds 

 shorter than the later ones and simply pinnate, the 

 pinnae borne on short stalks alternately on each side of 

 the rachis fan-shaped and indented. The taller and 



