87. FILICES. 287 



doubtless an error. " Isle of Arran, Galloway" Scotland, d^cn^l/'^i ^^^ '^'' 

 substituted by an error of geography or tj'pography, for ['^ 77 It 



the Isle of Arran, Galwaj^ Ireland. " Ilfracombe, York "-] . - ^ Uj^J.-^ 

 (Comm. N. B. Ward. — Bot. Soc. Edinb.), but this doubt- i^^ ^ l^ 

 less intends the Devon locality. [This blunder of the ^^, Tva*-* •; ^ 

 county, in the case of one botanical Mr. Ward, for some /^ <^^t.<J^ <^ 

 years left me in suspicion that the Yorkshire habitat for T- --v^^wh*- , ^ oM 

 Lastrea foenisecii, on authority of the other botanical Mr. 

 Ward on a label from the Edinburgh Society, might also 

 be a counterpart blunder of the count}', York for Devon, 

 in the case of a south-western species not then ascertained 

 to occiu' so far north as Yorkshire. See L. foenisecii for 

 explanation.] 



1406. Trichoimanes radicans, Sw. 



Area [10]. 



Hibernian. Incognit in England. Long supposed, 

 with more or less of confidence, to have been found wild 

 in Yorkshire. For a clear account of the gi'ounds for 

 belief or disbelief in the matter, I camiot do better than 

 refer to Newman's History of British Ferns, pp. 306 — 8. 

 That the Irish plant is the T. speciosum (Willd.) of Ma- 

 deira and the Azore islands, seems perfectly clear and 

 settled. But I am not by any means so well convinced 

 that it is also identical with the T. radicans (Swartz) of 

 the West Indies, to which it is referred by Sir William 

 Hooker. Mr. Newman holds them distinct, and if relying 

 on the ojiinions of other men, I should prefer that of Mr. 

 Newman in a question about British Ferns. T. Andrew- 

 sii, of Ireland, is a more elegant and elongated state, but 

 with very small claim to distinction as a species. In 

 general, the Hibernian examples appear to me much 



