1858.] FERNS OF ABERDEEN AND KINCARDINE. 335 



Pohjstichum anguJare. Banks of Sheeoch Drumoak, Kincar- 

 dineshire. 



Lastrea Oreopteris. Kincardineshire; plentiful in the parish 

 of Strachan, Aberdeenshire; abundant also in the alpine and 

 subalpine districts ; there is one station even in the vicinity of 

 Aberdeen. 



Lastrea Filix-mas, Swz. Very common. 



Lastrea spinulosa, Wilid. In both counties, frequent ; and it 

 is much more abundant near the summits of the Braemar Moun- 

 tains than 



Lastrea dilatata, Willd., which however is widely distributed 

 over the district. 



Asplenium septentrionale, Willd. In the Pass of Ballater, one 

 of the most remarkable sights in the Aberdeenshire Highlands. It 

 is a narrow pass — rather, cleft — through which the Deeside road 

 passes some distance, amid the perpendicular cliffs on both sides. 

 Craigin Darroch forms the wall on the south side ; but it is on 

 the north side that the Fern has been found, and there chiefly in 

 the chinks of a massive vein of felspar that at two points inter- 

 sects at right angles the north wall of the Pass, itself running 

 east and west. I have twice scaled these cliffs : the first time 

 in company with the gentleman who made the discovery. Dr. C. 

 Paterson, and putting out of the question the difficulty of ascent, 

 have both times succeeded in getting plenty of this northern 

 Fern ; but no trace of alternifoliu7n. 



Asplenium Rut a-mur aria. E-are in Kincardineshire, bridge at 

 Den of Brotherton, Benhoime ; more usual in Aberdeenshire, as 

 on the St. Machar's Cathedral, and a few similar stations about 

 town, but always on buildings ; I have however once met with it 

 in situ (so to speak) on the bare rocks by the stream in the Den 

 of Craig. 



Asplenium marinum, L. Plentiful on the Kincardineshire coast. 



Asplenium Trichomanes, L. In Kincardineshire, Den Fenella, 

 and below the bridge of Fuagh. Aberdeenshire, Serpentine Rocks 

 at Meadowbank, and in the Den of Craig, Carr Rocks, etc., 

 Braemar. 



Asplenium viride, Huds. Abundant on the Carr Rocks and 

 other situations in Braemar, as also near Ballater. — (If ^. fon- 

 tanum ever existed in 'Kincardineshire, it is now destroyed; and 

 in this place I may also mention that Professor Beattie, author 



