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about Pill and Ham Green. Rocks at Brean Down. 

 Wells. Winscombe. Yatton. Abundant in all 

 the parishes at the back of the Mendips. Frequent 

 on walls near Bath. IV. IX. 



BLECHNUM, Linn. 



975. B. boreale, Sw. Hard Fern. 



Native; in woods and on commons, rather rare. 

 Nearly absent from the neighbourhood of Bristol, 

 and, in common with all other ferns, much reduced 

 in quantity by the ravages of itinerant street 

 hawkers, who bring the roots into Bristol for sale. 



G. Wyck. Yate Common. 



S. Still plentiful in some of the preserved portions 

 of Leigh Wood. Formerly in St. Anne's Wood, 

 Brislington. Blackdown. Sparingly in Cleeve 

 Combe. Norton Wood, Clevedon. Sparingly near 

 Wells. Near Yatton. VII VIII. 



PTERIS, Linn. 



976. P. aquilina, L. Brakes or Bracken. 



Native ; in woods, and on heaths and commons. Very 

 common, except in the alluvial lowlands. 



VII. VIII. 



(Adiantum Capillus-Veneris, L. We have come across 

 several accounts of the capture of maiden-hair 

 ferns in various localities in the vicinity of Bristol 

 and we give them for what they are worth. 



" Under a bridge at Comptori Dando, S., where it has 

 been known some years." 



" At the mouth of an old well near Clevedon " ; 

 quoted in Cyb. Brit., vol. iii. 



