122 WHERE TO FIND FERNS. 



from Asplenium adiantum-nigrum, the sori in which 

 ordinarily become confluent. 



HABITATS. Shady positions on or near the sea-coast ; 

 moist and dripping rocks ; the shady sides of cliffs ; sea- 

 caverns ; rocky holes, oftentimes almost dark. This 

 species is especially luxuriant in places where water 

 oozes or trickles over the face of cliff or other rock, or 

 along the internal sides of caverns, crevices, or other 

 holes or fissures of rocks. Soft rock seamed with 

 vegetable mould offers, where the aspect and atmosphere 

 are congenial, especially favourite habitats for the 

 Lanceolate Spleenwort. 



WHERE FOUND. In England, in the counties of 

 Cornwall, Devon, Gloucester, Kent, Somerset, Sussex, 

 and Yorkshire. Amongst its habitats in Cornwall are 

 sea-rocks, or rocks adjacent to the sea-coast, at Land's 

 End, Penzance, and St. Ives. In Devonshire, along the 

 rivers Dart, Plym, Tamar, and Tavy, especially near and 

 at the mouths of those rivers. On the south-eastern sea- 

 coast of Devon, especially from Portlemouth to Prawle 

 Point and at Salcombe. The Yorkshire habitat of 

 Asplenium lanceolatum is a newly-found one, and its 

 discovery was first communicated to the author of this 

 volume by the Rev. R. Gatty, of Bradfield Rectory, who 

 kindly furnished fronds from the specimens he had 

 taken in this northern county. In Wales, in the counties 

 of Caernarvon, Denbigh, Glamorgan, Merioneth, and 

 Pembroke. No habitats of this species have been 

 discovered in Scotland, and only one in Ireland, namely, 

 near the town of Cork. It is, however, abundant in 

 Jersey, in Guernsey, and in Sark. 



