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kindly transmitted Ilfracombe specimens. I have also to acknowledge my 

 obligation to the Botanical Society of London, for specimens from Ilfra- 

 combe, collected by Dr. J. E. Gray, of the British Museum. Miss A. 

 Griffiths informs me it has been found at Watermouth, also on the north 

 coast ; the Rev. W. S. Here adds that it has lately been discovered near 

 Brixham, on the south coast of Devonshire, by Mr. Bartlett ; and Mr. T. 

 B. Flower has recently sent me specimens, gathered by himself at Mud- 

 stone or Mewstone Bay, near Berry Head, (see Phytol. iii. 51). 



Glamoeganshiee. — Miss M. Waring informs me that she obtained 

 specimens from rocks at Dunraven, in Glamorganshire ; and Mr. Dillwyn 

 observes that it is common on the cliffs of lias at the eastern end of the 

 county, but that he has not seen it on mountain limestone, or nearer to 

 Swansea than Dunraven, (Phytol. i. 183). I have seen specimens from 

 Barry Island, off the same coast ; and this, as well as Port Kerig, have been 

 given in all our Floras as localities. The Dunraven station is thus de- 

 scribed by my brother, Henry Newman, who paid it a visit in 1863 : — 

 " Let the botanist leave the South Wales rail at Bridgend station, and 

 walk six miles to Southerndown, a cluster of houses, with an inn, on the 

 side of the Bristol Channel. Arrived here, let him make for a sandy beach 

 close to the lodge-gate of the Dunraven estate, where it assumes the form 

 of a little bay ; following the bank or cliff to the left, and walking along its 

 base, he will in a few minutes perceive the fern covering the face of the cliff 

 where a rill comes trickling over its surface, and leaving a deposit of lime, 

 in appearance and consistence much like cream-cheese : this is very soft on 

 the surface, but harder underneath : out of this queer substance grows the 

 Maidenhair, very small in size, very abundant, entirely unprotected, and in 

 constant motion as the sea-breezes sweep over it." 



SoMEESETSHiEE. — " Said to grow at the mouth of an old well at Cleve- 

 don," — Mr. L. H. Grindon, in Phytol. i. 964. " I found three plants of 

 this fern growing in the air-shaft of a stone-quarry some thirty feet below 

 ground, at Comb Down, near Bath," — Mr. E. J. Lowe, in Phytol. iv. 1000. 



(Sheopshibe. — In the ' Phytologist ' (i. 579) appears the following 

 announcement by Mr. Westcott : — " About sixteen years ago I found 

 Adiantum Capillus- Veneris on the Glee Hill, Titterstone. It was growing 

 among the stones on the ascent to the group of rocks called the Giant's 

 Chair. I plucked a piece of it as a specimen, and placed it in my book, 

 leaving the root. This specimen I kept by me for some time, but at last 

 it was lost, and of the loss I took no notice, not doubting that the next time 

 I visited the spot I should again find the plant. However, I have hitherto 

 been unsuccessful in my researches ; but it would be well if some one would 

 diligently search for it, and perhaps it may again be discovered.") 



IsT.E OF Man. — We find it mentioned in Lightfoot's ' Flora Scotica ' as 

 a native of the Isle of Man ; but this locality appears to have been little 



