GYMNOGRAMMA LEPTOPHYLLA. 15 



communications from Jersey represent Gymnogramma leptophylla as widely 

 distributed in that Island, growing on the banks of exposed lanes having a 

 southern aspect, more especially in those localities in which the moistened 

 soil induces the growth of Marchantia, in the company of which plant it 

 appears particularly to flourish,; it also occurs, but not so frequently, grow- 

 ing in moss. The principal localities are near St. Haule, near St. Aubin's, 

 and in several places near St. Laurence. In one spot near the last named 

 place, it grows plentifully for a considerable distance along a hedge-bank, 

 extending as far as the bank is exposed, but ceasing exactly where the lane 

 is shaded by trees." — Phytol. iv. 974. 



Mr. Ward writes : — " T was kindly taken by M. Piquet, of St. Heller's, 

 to the great object of attraction, — Gymnogramma leptophylla. I saw it 

 growing, as stated in the ' Phytologist,' on a bank with a South-western 

 aspect, not densely shaded by trees, as is the case in most of the Jersey 

 lanes, but protected from the direct rays of the sun by the dwarf vegetation 

 of the bank, which, from the constant oozing of a small stream, is sufii- 

 ciently damp for the growth of Marchantia, with here and there a patch of 

 Fissidens bryoides, I was shown two stations for this interesting plant by 

 M. Piquet, and a third, about a mile from the former, by the Kev. W. 

 Wait. It doubtless will be found in other localities, as the climate must 

 nearly approach that of the South of France and of Italy, where the Gym- 

 nogramma abounds." — Mr. Ward, in Phytol. iv. 1090. " At St. Laurence 

 and near St. Haule."— M. Piquet, in Phytol. iv. 1094. 



The radicles are brown, fibrous, and clothed with fibrillse : the 

 caudex is a small, tufted corm, slightly hairy at the crown, never 

 extending itself laterally or increasing by offsets ; it generally 

 bears two, sometimes three, and rarely four, rigid, erect fronds, 

 usually about three inches high : the stipes is somewhat shorter 

 than the leafy portion of the frond, rather stout and glabrous, 

 and of a pale brown colour : the outline of the frond is some- 

 wdiat ovate, but usually acutely pointed, pinnate : pinna? alter- 

 nate, distinctly stipitate, pinnate, their outline somewhat ovate : 

 pinnules alternate, stipitate, pinnate : lobes again divided, and 

 the ultimate divisions bifid or trifid, a free vein running into 

 each : these veins are curved, and are generally capsuliferous 

 from the fork to near their extremity, the capsules are thus 

 ranoed in series, which at first are manifestly linear, but subse- 



