336 FILICES. 



837. E. limosum, L. 



E. nudum, sive junceum, Ger. (Merr.). E. nudum IcBvius nostras, E. Syn. 



(Blackst). 

 Cyb. Br. iii. 306. . Newman, 51. 

 Marshy places, ponds, and ditches ; common. P. May, June. 



I. In the Warren pond at Breakspears ; Blackst. Fasc. 26. Euislip Re- 



servoir ; Euislip Common ; Melv. 96. Near Yewsley ! ; Newb. 

 Stanmore Heath. 

 II. MeadoTvs near Sunbury. 

 III. Near Hatton. 

 IV. Pits on Hampsted Heath ; Merrett, 35. North Heath, abundant. 



VI. Whetstone. Edmonton. 



VII. Hammersmith, near Sir Nicholas Crisp's brick-pit ; Merrett, 35. Isle 



of Dogs, Newman ; Phyt. i. 691. Sides of ponds. Ken Wood grounds. 



First record: Merrett, 1666; also first as a British plant. The form 



with long branches, E. fluviatile, L. is E. fol. nudum ramosum, C. B. P. ; 



Breakspears ; Blackst. Fasc. 26 ; also common at Hampstead. 



838. E. palustre, L. 



Cyb. Br. iii. 306. Newman 43. 



Wet places, sides of streams, &c. ; rather rare. P. July, August. 

 I. Near Harefield ! ; near Yewsley ! ; Newb. Euislip Moor. 



II. Staines. Near Teddington. Hampton. Bet. Hampton and Hampton 



Court. 

 IV. Bog on North Heath, Hampstead ! ; Irv. MSS. 

 V. Canal side near Greenford ; Melv. 97. 



VII. South Heath, Hampstead. 



First record: Buddie, about 1705. An unbranehed form, E. nuduyn 

 ramosum (III.), on a bog on Hounslow Heath, where nothing as yet 

 but this had sprung up after the digging of peat ; Budd. MSS. vi. and 

 Budd. Herb, cxvii. fol. 11. This we suppose is E. lave pene nudum of 

 Pet. Gr. Cone. 238 (see also Bill, in R. Syn. iii. 131). 



(E. hyemale, L. Cyb. Br. iii. 307. Newman, 17. III. Hounslow 

 Heath; Mart. App. P. C. 71. Ibid., E. Forster; B. G. 413. Speci- 

 mens of E. limosum and E. palustre have been probably taken for this.) 



PILICES.* 

 POLYPODIUM, Linn. 

 839. P. vulffare, L. Polypody. 



Polypodium, Ger. em. (Blackst.). 

 Cyb. Br. iii. 252. Moore tt. 1-7. Curt. F. L. f. 1. 



* The Ferns are naturally poorly represented in Middlesex, and in consequence of 

 being marketable, have become of late years very scarce in the vicinity of London ; some 

 have been quite eradicated. We quote the nature-printed plates in the octavo edition of 

 Mr. Thomas Moore's British Ferns, where are figures and descriptions of very many 

 'varieties.' 



