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nicum has been noticed in this neighbourhood, and, as far as I am aware, 

 this is the first recorded EngUsh locality. It was found in the summer of 

 1846 hj William Greaves and Joseph FUntoft, the latter of whom executed 

 the famous model of the Lake District ; it was growing in the cleft of a 

 rock ill the wUds of Borrowdale.'' — Phytol. iii. 11. In September, 1853, 

 Miss Wright rediscovered the fern, I beheve in the same station, and obli- 

 gingly sent me a specimen, accompanied by the following note : — "I take 

 the liberty of inclosing a frond of Asplenium germanicum, which I have 

 found, while looldng for A. septentrionale, on high rocks in Borrowdale." 

 — Phytol. iv. 723. Miss Wright's specimen was correctly named ; and Mr. 

 Borrer, writing to me under date of November 33, 1853, says: — " Miss 

 Wright showed me a living plant of Asplenium germanicum, and Mr. Flin- 

 toft some dried fronds, which they stated to be brought from different spots 

 in Borrowdale. Miss Wright conducted me to the rock whence she 

 ' brought ' her plant ; but neither on that occasion, nor on previous visits, 

 did she find a second root." 



Caebnaevonsi-iirb. — The discovery of A. germanicum in Wales was 

 first recorded by myself in the ' Phytologist ' for October, 1847. " Three 

 years have elapsed since I received an anonymous letter, beginning thus: — 

 ' A lady who has this season visited North Wales,' &c., and then stating 

 that she had found Asplenium septentrionale in great abundance, and also 

 unmistakable specimens of Asplenium germanicum : the locality was care- 

 fully and obligingly given, with the view of conducting me to the spot. As 

 far as regards A. septentrionale, I knew the statement to be correct, and 

 had no reason whatever to doubt the more extraordinary fact of A. germa- 

 nicum having occurred in Wales, other than the feehng of uncertainty whe- 

 ther the nameless lady knew the plant which she so called. The matter is 

 now at rest. I have before me a veritable specimen of Asplenium germa- 

 nicum, gathered (at the very station pointed out by my anonymous corre- 

 spondent) by Mr. H. Wilson, and obhgingly transmitted for my inspection 

 by Mr. W. Wilson, of Warrington." — E. Newman, in Phytol. ii. 974. 

 Subsequently, Mr. WOhams, the Snowdon guide, found a root of this raiity 

 on Moel Lechog, a precipitous rock to the right of the Pass of Llanberis, 

 as you look towards Capel Cerig. This plant was transmitted to the Koyal 

 Botanic Garden at Kew, where I saw it some time ago, and where perhaps 

 it is still living. 



The radicles are black and wiry : the caudex is tufted : the 

 stipes dark at the base, but green above : the frond is very 



