342 FILICES." 



VI. Wood near Highgate ; Hcrh. Billenius. 



VII. Environs of Ken Wood ; Curt. F. L. [Margin of pond in Vale of 

 Health, Hampstead ; Irv. M8S^ 



First record: Gcrarde, 1597. 



PTERIS, Linn. 



853. P. aquillna, L. Common Fern. Brakes. Bracken. {Female 

 Fern of old authors). 

 FUix fcemina, Gcr. (Blackst.). 

 Cyb. Br. iii. 285. Moore tt. 98, 99. 

 Heaths and open uncultivated places, also woods and walls ; common. 



P. June, July. 

 I. Harefield!; Blackst. Fasc. 28. Elstree. Bet. South Mims and 



Potter's Bar. 

 II. Towing path, Hampton Court ! ; Newb. Bushey Park, abundant. 



III. Hounslow Heath, Drilling Ground, &c., abundant. 



IV. Harrow Weald ; Melv. 96. Bet. Finchley and Hendon ! ; Newb. 



North Heath, Hampstead. 

 VI, Winchmore Hill Wood. Enfield. 



VII. [Hyde Park, about 1825; Pamplin.'] South Heath, Hampstead. 

 First record: Merrett, 1666. Mr. Moore mentions that he finds on 

 Hampstead Heath his varieties integerrima and crispa (ii. 242). 

 Young seedlings frequently grow in the chinks of brick walls ; they 

 then have a delicate appearance very unlike the usual form, and are 

 barren. The following refer to this state : Filix ramosa sive fcemina 

 minor nostras, on old walls by the Thames side ; Bndd. MSS. [Filix 

 saxatilis crispa, Park. ; over the gates as you go into King Street, 

 (Westminster); Merrett, 39.] [Walls of Savoy, Gray's Inn, Westmin- 

 ster, Koyal Gardens, &c. ; Pet. Midd.'\ F. sax, ramosa maritima 

 nostras, on the wall of Chelsea physic garden ; Dill, in R. 8yn. iii. 1 25. 

 Mr. Dan. Hanbury also informs us that it still usually appears in wet 

 seasons in such places, and that in 1866 it was abundant on the walls 

 of the Tower. 



[OSMUNDA, Li7in. 



859:. O. recalls, L. Flowering Fern. Royal Fern. 



Filix florida sive 0. vidg. (Ger., Johns., Park., Eay, Pet.). 

 Cyb. Br. iii. 290. Curt. F. L. f. 6. 

 Bogs on heaths ; very rare. P. July — September. 

 IV. In the midst of a bog at the further end of Hampsteede Heath, at 



the bottom of a hill adjoining to a small cottage ; Ger. 969, Johns. 



Enum., Park. Theat. 1039. Of late it is all destroyed ; Johns. Ger. 



1131. Towards the north side of Hampstead Heath ; Pet. Midd. 



On the low part of the Heath, sparingly ; MS. note {Alchorne's) 



quoted in Phyt, iii. 166. 



