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usually the case with the fructification of the Common 

 Maidenhair Spleenwort, on the entire leafy under sides. 



HABITATS. Wild outlying districts, away, ordinarily, 

 from the immediate vicinity of towns ; rocks where 

 trickling moisture can flow over the crowns of these 

 little plants. The most moist and shady of rocky crevices 

 are the favoured habitats. 



WHERE FOUND. In England, in the counties of 

 Chester, Cumberland, Derby, Durham, Lancaster, 

 Leicester, Middlesex, Monmouth, Northumberland, 

 Stafford, Surrey, Sussex, Westmoreland, Worcester, and 

 York. The particular localities in these counties are 

 the following, which will be mentioned in the alpha- 

 betical order, first of the counties and then of the dis- 

 tricts, in or near which this species is found. In 

 Cheshire, Carr-edge; in the county of Cumberland, 

 Ashness Gill, Borrowdale, Borrow Force (a " force " is 

 the north-country name of a waterfall), and Gillsland ; 

 in Derbyshire, Buxton, Castleton, Cavedale, and Dove- 

 dale ; in Durham, Falcon Glints, Teesdale, and Wear- 

 dale ; in Kent, Maidstone ; in the county of Lancaster, 

 Dulesgate and Staley; in Leicestershire, Beacon Hill 

 and Charley Forest ; in Middlesex, Southgate ; in the 

 county of Northumberland, banks of the River Irthing ; 

 in Staffordshire, Dovedale ; in the county of Surrey, 

 Mickleham ; in Sussex, Danny; in Westmoreland, Am- 

 bleside, Arnside, Casterton Fell, Farlton, Hutton Roof, 

 Kendal Fell, Mazebec Scar, and Patterdale ; in Wor- 

 cestershire, Ham Bridge; in Yorkshire, Aix-la-Beck, 

 Craven, Gordale, Leeds, Ogden Clough (in the neigh- 

 bourhood of Halifax), Ingleborough, Reeth Moor, 

 Richmond, Settle, Swaledale, Wensleydale, and Wid- 

 dal Fell. In Wales, in the counties of Brecknock, 

 Caernarvon, Glamorgan, and Merioneth ; and in the 

 following localities in those counties : in Brecknock- 

 shire, Brecon Beacon, and Trecastle Beacon (Brecon), 

 Capel Colbren, and Capel-y-Fin ; in the county of Caer- 



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