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III 



ASPLENIUM TRICHOMANES, VCir. INCISUM 



Mr. A. Clapham. Yorkshire. 1859. 

 6 in. 



Syn. plumosum (Woli.) 



The plumose form of the species. First noticed in the British 

 Herbal, 1743, without name of discoverer or place of discovery. 

 Mr. Wollaston considers that the first recorded discovery was in 

 Jersey, by Sherard. The following' discoveries are also recorded : 

 In Yorkshire by Mr. Clapham, 1859, and previously by Mr. J. 

 Tatham; Cumberland, Miss Wright; Westmoreland, Mr. Wollaston, 

 1870; Lancashire, S. Gibson ; Devonshire, Rev. W. S. Hore and 

 R. Moule, 1869. The most remarkable "find" was that of Miss 

 Wright in Borrowdale, where it is described by Mr. Wollaston as 

 having been seen by him growing in a granite fissure, and extend- 

 ing nearly a yard in four or five elongated tufts, containing at 

 least two hundred crowns. 



