372 FILICES. [Lastrea. 
gaum, Slieve Mish range (R.W.S.), to 2,850 feet on Brandon 
and to 3,000 feet on the Reeks (Hart). 
First record in 1844: Dr. Taylor & S. P. Woodward, 
Phytol., p. 878. 
L. wmula Brack. L. recurva Newm. Aspidium emulum 
Swartz. Hay-scented Fern. 
Districts J. II. TI. IV. V. VI. VIT. VII. IX. 
Native. Woods, banks, rocky places, streamsides, &c. 
Common and locally abundant, but thins out in the north. 
Peren. July—September. 
From sea-level, to 1,850 feet on Brandon and to 2,100 feet 
above Lough Googh on the Reeks (Hart). 
First record in 1844: Dr. Taylor, Messrs. Ogilby & S. P. 
Woodward, Newman’s Brit. Ferns, p. 227. This is most 
probably the fern gathered by Dr. Wade “in Earl Ken- 
mare’s park, Killarney,” and recorded by him, although 
with some doubt, as ‘‘the true Polypodium fragrans of 
Linneus ” in his Plante Rariores 1804, p. 91. 
Probably nowhere in Ireland do Lastrea emula and L. 
dilata attain to greater perfection than in the moist shady 
glens and woods of south Kerry. About Killarney and its 
neighbourhood especially, both these ferns occur in great 
abundance and luxuriance and add much to the charm of 
many beauty spots round the Lakes. When well grown, 
Lastrea emula, with its pale green fronds and crimped 
pinne, is certainly one of the most handsome and character- 
istic of the larger Kerry ferns. 
POLYPODIUM Linn. 
P. vulgare Linn. Common Polypody. 
Districts I. TI. TI. IV. V. VI. VII. VIII. IX. 
Native. On the trunks and branches of trees, and on walls, 
rocks, banks, &. Common. Peren. July—September. 
From sea-level, to 2,610 feet on the Reeks (Hart), and to 
2,800 feet on Brandon (Colgan). 
First record in 1806: Mackay Rar. ‘‘In Ross woods, 
Killarney.” 
Var. serratum Willd.—“‘ In various parts of the county 
Kerry’: Newman 1840.—VI. In Ross woods, Killarney : 
Mackay Rar. On Muckross Abbey (S. P. Woodward) 
Phytol. 1844, p. 878. 
Var. camBricum Willd.—VI. On the castle ruins at Castle- 
lough, Lower Lake, Killarney, 1903 : R W.S., and elsewhere 
in the county. 
