^^^ GBEEN SPLEENWOET. 



{WoHOESTEESHiEE. — On Ham Bridge : first observed there by Mr. 

 Stretch, of Worcester ; the station afterwards verified by Mr. Lees (Phytol. 

 i. 46), and Mr. Westcombe, (Id. i. 513). I had long noted Ham Bridge 

 as a locaHty worthy of a visit on account of its producing this fern, and re- 

 solved to make it an object of pilgrimage. In May, 1843, I wended my 

 way from Sapey brook, along the rich valley of the Teme, through meadows 

 clothed with luxuriant herbage, and among cattle fit for a Smithfield show. 

 As I approached the bridge, the red bricks of which it is buUt, and the dry 

 and dusty road which passed over it, seemed in no degi-ee to increase the 

 chance of success : yet on that bridge, facing the road-way and covered with 

 dust, was the identical plant I sought ; small, indeed, but the species not 

 to be mistaken. This station can scarcely be regarded as strictly natural). 



Caernaevonshiee. — I have found it in abundance near Llyn-y-cwn. 



Beecknockshiee.— Mr. Ealfs informs me that he has found it near 

 Brecon, on Brecon Beacon, and on Trecastle Beacon : Mr. Westcombe 

 gives me Chapel-y-Fin as a habitat : Mr. Lees observed it at the waterfall 

 of Scwyd-yr-Heuryd, near Capel Colbren, on the rocks below the fall, on 

 the right-hand side, where there is also a very old trunk of mountain ash 

 covered with a drapery of this fern. 



Glamorgan shiee. — Mr. DiUwyn and Mr. Edward Young have found 

 it in crevices of the rooks at the upper Oilhepste waterfall, near Pont Nedd 

 Vecchn ; and Mr. Dill\v}Ti at Darran yr Ogof, near Ystradgunlais, (Phytol. 

 i. 283). Mr. Babington informs me he found it at Merthyr Tydfil. 



(Sussex. — Mr. Thomas Moore has recorded the discovery of this fern at 

 Danny, near Brighton: (see Phytol. iv. 842, 916, 946 ; v. 50). I cannot 

 consider this a natural station). 



(SuRBEY. — " In the deep cracks of an old brick wall at Mickleham, Sur- 

 rey, where I was shown upwards of twenty plants, by a gardener of that 

 neighbourhood, who discovered it a few months ago, and had taken away 

 several roots." — Mr. Borrer, in Phytol. v. 50). 



(Kent. — A locaUty exactly corresponding with Mr. Borrer's Sun-ey sta- 

 tion appears to have been known as far back as the time of Plukenet : — 

 "Muris saxeis innatum conspexit D. Plukenet in horto D. Owen apud Maid- 

 stoniam in Agro Cautiano." — See Rail Syn. p. 119, and Pluk. Aim. p, 9). 



In Ireland it appears to be much less common than in Scotland or the 

 North of England, 



CoEK. — Dr. Taylor has found it near Bandon, in this county. 



Donegal. — Mr. W. Thompson informed me it was found by Mr. E. 

 Murphy near Lough Eask. 



Keert. — Dr. Mackay and several other botanists give Turk Mountain, 

 by the Lakes of Killarney, as a locality. 



Sligo. — Mr. W. Thompson and several other botanists have found it on 

 Ben Bulben. 



