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regarded, indeed it had sunk into oblivion, when we were favoured by a 

 corroborative statement of the fact by the Rev. F. F. Clark, (Phytol. i. 89). 

 From this gentleman we learn that the locality was rediscovered by Dr. 

 Wood, of Cork, in or about 1809, and by himself in 1835 and 1 840. In 

 the latter year he thought it nearly exterminated, but Mr. T. G. Rylands 

 again observed the plant in Glen Meay, in 1841 : he found young plants 

 in tolerable abundance, mixed with more mature ones, although it required 

 close examination to discover the roots when the fronds were gone ; the 

 finest root was high above a water-fall, and perfectly inaccessible, so that 

 he considers its extermination highly improbable. I am indebted to Mr. 

 Wilson for cultivated specimens, from a root brought by Mr. Rylands from 

 this locality. 



(Scotland. — In Lightfoot's 'Flora Scotica ' we find this record : — "Dr. 

 Sibthorpe, the present most obhging Professor of Botany, at Oxford, fa- 

 voured me with the sight of a large and perfect specimen of this fern, in 

 the copious herbarium preserved at the Physic Garden in that University, 

 to which specimen a label was annexed, with this inscription, ' From the 

 isle of Arran, near Galloway, from Mr. Stonestreet.' The specimen is to 

 be found among the ferns. — Lib. 3, p. 3, /. 3." — (Flor. Scot. iL. 079). 

 This statement is now universally behoved to be an error, and to refer to 

 the isles of Arran near Galway, on the west coast of Ireland. The other 

 Scotch station, "by the Carron, in Kincardineshire," given in Hooker and 

 Amott's ' British Flora ' (576), also appears to be erroneous.) 



Ireland. — I am indebted to Mr. Mackay, of the College Botanic Gar- 

 den, for a specimen from the south isles of AiTan, where he found it in 

 profusion, growing in small fissures of hmestone rocks, but never rising 

 above the fissures, therefore varying in length of frond in proportion to the 

 depth of the fissure. Mr. W. Andrews found it sparingly on the Cahir 

 Conree mountain, near Tralee; and the late Mr. J. M'AUa, an industrious 

 young botanist, who resided at Roundstone, in Comiemara, found a few 

 plants at the foot of a rook facing south-west, on the banks of Lough Bulard, 

 near Urrisbeg. Very abundant and luxuriant on the coast of Clare, near 

 BaUyvaughan : " about four or five miles from BaUyvaughan, the line of 

 shore subsides into what in Yorkshire is called ' limestone pavement,' the 

 chinks and chasms of this are in some places hterally filled with Asple- 

 nium marinum, and in others with Adiantum Capillus- Veneris, the fronds 

 of the latter usuaUy coming up to the surface-level, and measurin» cer- 

 tainly 16 to 18 inches in length. The station extends westward from Bal- 

 lyvaughan, round Black flead, to Cremhn Point." — Mr. W. Bennett, in 

 Phytol. iv. 1120. 



