336 FERNS OF ABERDEEN AND KINCARDINE. [February, 



of the ' Minstrel/ was quite wrong in assigning tlie banks of the 

 Carron as a station for A. Cajnllus- Veneris. It is a pity that the 

 mistake should have been so much propagated as it has been.) 



Asplenium Adiantum-nigrum, L. Kincardineshire, Den Fe- 

 nella, Annie's Dam, at Benholme, and at the Cove. Aberdeen- 

 shire, Meadowbank, Fowenruffe (a serpentine hill in the inte- 

 rior, where I gathered Arenaria verna, for the first time in the 

 county), Pass of Ballater, and in Braemar. 



Athyrmn Filix-fmnina, Roth. Common. 



Scolopendrkmi vulyare, Smith. Very abundant in Den Fe- 

 nella; said to grow at Auchmedden, in Aberdeenshire. 



Blechnum boreale, Swz. Hillsides, heaths, etc., abundant. 



Pteris aquilina, L. In great plenty. I have seen it upwards 

 of ten feet high, when there were shrubs, etc., to support it. 



AUosorus crispus, Bern. With Polypodium alpestre on Loch- 

 nagar and in the Glen Callater. 



Osmunda regalis, L. Kincardineshire, Cove ; Aberdeenshire, 

 near Loch of Drum. 



Botrychium Lunaria, Swz. Generally diffused over these 

 counties, and often at a considerable elevation : in some places 

 sparingly, and requiring minute search ; in others, as at Bel- 

 helvie, quite densely scattered about. A recent writer in the 

 ' Phytologist ' clearly mistook this Fern for Ophioglossum vul- 

 gatum when he gives the Loch of Drum as a locality; but as 

 his rambles and the remarks thereon bore evident traces of haste,^ 

 this and several other misstatements are not to be wondered at. 

 I am almost convinced however that O. vulgatum (one or two 

 specimens) was gathered several years ago in Den Fenella, and not 

 since, notwithstanding very diligent search. This would afford 

 no probability of its growing at the Loch of Drum, as the one 

 enjoys quite a different soil and climate and exposure from the 

 other. — The statistical account gives Arbuthnot as a station, 

 which is much more likely, especially as it remarks that it occurs 

 but rarely, just as in the adjacent station of St. Cyrus; so that 

 Ave may consider this the most northern point of its distribution, 

 and consider — 



Ophioglossum vulgatum, L., as inhabiting Kincardineshire 

 alone. 



Pilularia globulifera, Auct. Kincardineshire, Loch of Drum. 

 * See Pliyt. vol. i. p. 510, when Pilularia is printed Pilularial. 



