J./^ EHRHAET S FEEN. 



one Welch, and two English counties, besides those mentioned 

 below ; in every instance there was a mistake in the name. 



Cheshibe. — The Rev. Mr. Pinder had the good fortune to discover 

 this fern in Wybunbury bog, in this county, and has supphed me hberaUy 

 with specimens. 



Nottinghamshire. — In this county it was first discovered by Dr. 

 Howitt at Oxton bogs, and has since been found at the same locaUty by the 

 late Mr. Riley, the late Mr. Quekett, Mr. Sidebotham, and several other 

 botanists : Mr. Sidebotham has also observed it at Bulwell marshes. I am 

 indebted to Mr. RUey and Mr. Kippist for specimens from this county. 



NoHFOLK. — The Rev. R. B. Francis, was, I beheve, the discoverer of 

 this fern in Norfolk, in the year 1805; it was growing among furze-bushes 

 by the side of a drain : it has since been found in abundance at Edgefield 

 by Mr. Wighatn, and on Bawsey Heath, near Lynn, by Mr. Ewing, the 

 Rev. Mr. Mumford, and Mr. Burlingham : it grows intermixed with the 

 common ling, and is shaded by a few young alder trees. Mr. Burhngham, 

 of Lynn, discovered a fourth Norfolk station in 1841 ; it is near the vil- 

 lage of Dersingham, between seven and eight miles from Lynn, on the 

 road to Hunstanton : in this station there are fewer roots, and it does not 

 grow so luxm-iantly as at Bawsey, probably owing to there being less mois- 

 ture and no shade, as here it grows among hng, unaccompanied by alders. 

 I have to record my obHgatiou to the Botanical Society of London, and to 

 Mr. S. P. Woodward, for a fine series of specimens, and to Mr. Bridgman 

 for a supply of hving plants. 



(Suffolk. — Sir J. E. Smith records that it was gathered by Mr. Davy 

 on bogs, amongst alder bushes, at Westleton, in this county ; (Eng. Flor. 

 iv. 300). I do not possess specimens ; and Mr. George Wolsey, who has 

 thoroughly searched the neighbourhood, cannot find it. This is one of the 

 counties from which I have repeatedly received specimens incorrectly named ; 

 though I don't Itnow that there is any improbability of its occurrence). 



The radicles of Lophodium Callipteris are dark brown, nu- 

 merous, and often matted together : the caudex is very stout, 

 and gradually increases in length, as the jalant increases in 

 age, occasionally emitting a lateral branch, which in due time 

 also becomes branched, so that an old plant is sometimes 

 possessed of a very extensive and complicated caudex, which 

 throws up fronds from all its extremities. The base of the 



