100 Wilson's feex. 



accompanied me thither. The station is recorded in the sixth edition of 

 the ' British Flora,' under the name of Corrach-Uachdar, but a native of 

 the neighbourhood called the mountams Meal Oufillach, and the ravine 

 Corrach Dh' Oufillach, as nearly as I could express his pronunciation. He 

 could not spell the words." — Mr. Borrer, in Phytol. iv. 7. " Previously 

 to my setting off for Scotland on the 1st of this month, August, 1853, I 

 was not able to get any information respecting the locality for Cystopteris 

 montana, more than I obtained from the pages of the ' Phytologist ; ' and 

 when arrived within the district, in reply to my inquiiies respecting Cor- 

 rach Uachdar or D'OufiUach, no one that I met with had ever heard of such 

 names, though I took great pains in making clear what ought to be its situ- 

 ation, and the way in which the names were spelled, not trusting to my 

 pronunciation. Such being the case, I was obhged to trust to myself, and 

 search diligently, and had the pleasure of discovering a locality for the said 

 fern, which I suppose is the third in which it has been found in Scotland ; 

 it is not Mr. Borrer 's station, directions for which I have since received, 

 but may be six or eight miles distant from it. I found only one frond in 

 fruit."— Mr. Westcombe in Phytol. iv. 1098. From the Rev. Mr. Little, 

 who has also been successful in finding Myrrdidifolium in Scotland, I learn 

 that the geological formation on which it occurs is mica-schist. 



(Wales. — Caernarvonshire : — " Cystopteris montana, recently described 

 in the ' Phytologist ' as a newly discovered British plant, is stated by Spren- 

 gel to have b^jen found in Wales by Plukenet, who figured it in his ' Phy- 

 tographia,' tab. 89, f. 4, but I have not seen the figure." — Mr. H. O. 

 Stephens, in Phytol. i. 875. Mr. Watson having noticed this suggestion 

 (Cyb. Brit. ih. 359), it seems desirable to examine it. On reference to Plu- 

 kenet, I found that accurate botanist and phytographer giving Ray as his 

 authority in the present instance, and referring the reader to Ray's ' Synop- 

 sis,' p. 27. Here is the passage: — "Filix montana ramosa minor argute 

 denticidata. Small branched mountain fern with finely indented leaves. 

 Ad summitatem mentis Glyder qua lacui Llyn Ogwan imminet. D. Lloyd. 

 Singulare quid in hac specie esse videtur quod in alis sui ramulis infimis 

 surculi ad alee costam inferiores oppositis longiores sunt, praesertim scapo 

 proximi notabili diiJerentia." On this I may remark : — 1. That the plant 

 in question was found in Wales by Lloyd, not by Plukenet. 3. That the 

 record is Ray's. 3. That the similarity of specific name is merely acci- 

 dental, although Sprengel's record is based thereon. 4. That the character 

 described by Ray is common to aU the Lophodiums hereinafter to be de- 

 scribed. And, 5. That Plukenet's figure faithfully and beautifully repre- 

 sents a smaU frond of Lophodium Foenisecii, precisely similar to some 

 lately gathered in North Wales by Mr. G. Maw, and kindly submitted to 

 my inspection). 



