78 WHERE TO FIND FERN-. 



would shrivel up under the effects of sunshine or of a 

 dry atmosphere. 



WHERE FOUND. No locality in either England or 

 Scotland is at present generally known to possess this 

 fern, although it is said to have been found in Cornwall 

 and West Yorkshire, in Arran and Argyle. It is be- 

 lieved that it grows abundantly in one part of North 

 Wales (Merioneth is the county which has been named), 

 but the locality is only known to a few persons, who 

 have kept its whereabouts a profound secret. In Ire- 

 land, it has been found in the counties of Cork, Kerry, 

 Limerick, Waterford, and Wicklow; and in the following 

 localities : in Cork county, in Glendine wood ; near 

 Youghal, at Glenbour and Killeagh ; on rocks near 

 Bandon; on rocks at Ballinasy Glen and Temple Michael 

 Glen near Cork ; at the Clashgariffe Fall ; on rocks near 

 Glandore, and also near Bantry ; and on rocks on Carri- 

 geena Kildorrery in the north of Cork. In Kerry County, 

 on the Tork Mountains and at the Tork Waterfall ; 

 amongst the Cromaglaun Mountains ; at Glengariff in 

 Valentia Island ; near Dingle (on Mount Eagle) ; at 

 Gortgaree, between Killarney and Kenmare ; at Black- 

 stones, in Glouin Caragh ; and at Inveragh and Curaan 

 Lake, Waterville. In County Limerick, amongst the 

 Cumailte Mountains. In County Waterford, along the 

 Blackwater Valley ; and in Wicklow County, at Powers- 

 court Waterfall and in Hermitage Glen. In some of 

 these localities the mountainous ones it has been 

 found growing at a height of fifteen hundred feet above 

 the sea-level. 



