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DUBLIN NATTTEAl HISTORY SOCIETY, 



the fern is found on Tore Mountain, at Killarney, except that the Li- 

 merick station has an eastern aspect instead of northern. I also send a 

 list of the ferns I have observed growing in the neighbourhood of Kil- 

 laloe. 



Common Polypody (P. vulgare) : Generally abundant. 



Lobed Shield Fern (P. lolatwn) : Keeper range, shady places ; not 

 abundant. 



Angular Shield Fern (P. angulare) : Shady hedges near Newport, 

 abundant ; Keeper glens. 



Heath Shield Fern (Z. oreoptcris) : Gortnagee, two miles K W. of 

 Killaloe and Glennagalliagh, four miles N". W. of ditto ; abundant. 



Male Shield Fern {L.fMx onas) ; Generally abundant ; both forms. 



Lastrea dilatata : Generally abundant, in shady places, on the Keeper 

 range. A remarkably attenuated form of this species grows abundantly 

 in exposed places. 



Brees' Fern (Z. foenesecii) : Glens of the Keeper range ; abundant. 



Lady Fern {A. filix foemina) -. Generally abundant; hill-sides and 

 hedges. 



Lady Fern {A. f. foemina, var. Rhoeticum) : Glenagalliagh. Here this 

 variety is very well marked, and the rachis is of a dark reddish-purple 

 hue. 



Wall Rue {A. ruta muraria) : Walls ; locally abundant. 

 ^ Maiden-hair, Spleenwort {A. trichomanes) : Generally abundant ; 

 chiefly on walls. 



Elack-stalked Spleenwort {A. adiantum nigrum) : Walls ; generally 

 abundant. " 



Common Hartstongue {S. vulgar e) : Locally abundant. 



Scaly Ceterach (C. OJ^cw^<w^): Walls; locally abundant. 



Northern Hard Fern {B. spicant) : Hills ; abundant. 



Fragile Bladder Fern {Cgstopteris fragile) : Eoad-side, S. of Scariif 

 Bay ; tolerably abundant. Found by F. J. Foot, Esq. 



Common Brakes (Fteris aquilina) : Hills ; abundant. 



Killarney Bristle Yevn {Trichomanes radicans) : Glen in Keeper range. 



Tunbridge Filmy Fern (JI. Tunlridgense) : Glen in Keeper range. 



Royal Fern ( 0. regalis) : Glenomera, Clare river ; field on west side. 



Moonwort {B. lunaria): exposed upland slopes ; Keeper range; Gort- 

 nagee ; N.W. of Killaloe Crag west side of stream, \5. The form of this 

 species, with three spikes of fructification, was observed at the former 

 station. Found by F. J. Foot, Esq. 



Adder' s-tongue ( 0. vulgatum) : Glennagalliagh, abundant ; Ballina, 

 abundant. 



Professor Kinahan said it was very satisfactory to have the Limerick 

 station for Trichomanes confirmed. He had very little doubt, as he had 

 before stated in this Society, that the fern, so far from being confined to 

 Killarney, would be found to extend over the whole south of Ireland. 

 Mr. David. Moore, M. R. I. A., who fii'st informed him of the station for 

 tliis fern (quoted in a former paper of Dr. Kinahan's), had also pointed 



