Polypodium.] FILICES. 373 
P. epecoptsrls Linn. Phegopteris polypodioides Feé. Beech 
ern. 
Districts — II. I. IV. V. VI — — ~— 
Native. Wet gullies and rocky places about mountains. 
Rare and local. Peren. July—September. 
II. On rocks near the roadside on the descent into the 
Owenreagh valley north of Lough Barfinnihy, 1903-09 ; in 
a gully on the west side of Eagle’s Lough north of Sneem, 
1892: R.W.S.—III. On cliffs above Coomasaharn Lake, 
Coomacarrea Mountains, Glenbeigh, 1894 (Rev. C. F. 
d’Arcy) Cyb. 1898.—IV. In a gully at about 900 feet between 
Lough Reagh (Black Valley) and the summit of Broaghna- 
binnia, and in a gully south of Lough Reagh upper Glencar 
(Hart) Journ. of Bot. 1882, p. 174—seen in the latter station, 
1889: R.W.S. In the Gap of Dunloe, circa 1900, and in 
1916: Mrs. Jenner—V. On rocks by the waterfall above 
Lough Adoon near Connor Hill, 1913: Praeger.—VI. “In 
marshes near Mr. Herbert’s House at Muckross” (Dr. 
Taylor), and between Killarney and Kenmare (Moore) 
Newman 1844. On Tore Mountain and about Killarney 
(Kinahan, Newman, &c.) Cyb. 1866. On the stony slopes 
of Tore between the waterworks and the Falls, circa 1900: 
Archdeacon Wynne. Very fine in a gully on the north side 
of the Paps Mountain and on rocks above Lough Glanna- 
freaghaun on the east side: R.W.S. 1890, and in 1910. 
Ranges from about 300 feet above sea-level on Tore 
Mountain (Archdeacon Wynne), to 1,700 feet on the Paps 
Mountain (R.W.S.). 
First record in 1844: Dr. Taylor & Mr. Moore, Newman’s 
Brit. Ferns, p. 120. 
No doubt occurs in further localities in the south and 
west of the county. 
[P. Dryopreris Linn. Oak Fern. VI. “ Found in the 
stony parts of Ture Mountain, Killarney ” : Wade Rar. 1804. 
“On Ture Mountain, Killarney . .. where it had been 
previously noticed [by] Dr. Wade:” Mackay Cat. 1825. 
This locality is repeated in the Irish Flora 1833, and in 
Mackay’s Flor. Hib. 1836. ‘‘ Mr. Woodward informs me 
there is a single frond in Dr. Taylor’s herbarium, labelled 
Muckross ’? : Newman 1844. This latter locality is repeated 
by Thos. Moore in his Nat.-printed Ferns of Grt. Brit. and 
Ireland 1855, but the accuracy of all these records is doubted 
by the Editors of Cyb. 1866. ; 
If the Oak Fern really occurred at Killarney, and Dr. 
