Osmunda. | FILICES. 375 
Although the published locality was deliberately left 
vague, there is reason to fear that it has become known to 
some unscrupulous fern exterminator, as very little indeed 
of this fine variety was seen there on a recent visit by the 
present writer. 
OPHIOGLOSSUM Linn. 
O. vulgatum Linn. Adder’s-tongue. 
Districts I. II. OI. — V. VI. VII. VI. IX. 
Native. Damp pastures, meadows, woods, &c. Rather rare 
and local. Peren. May—July. 
I. Near the shore west of Lehid Harbour, Kenmare Bay, 
1894 ; in two or three localities about Kenmare, as by the 
River Finnihy and in woods to the south and east of Cleady, 
1890-1904 ; sparingly in a field in the Roughty valley near 
Sillahertane, 1903.—II. Sparingly in Darrynane wood : 
R.W.S. 1890.—III. Sparingly on Beginish Island, Valencia 
Harbour, 1892: R.W.S.—still there in 1906, and near the 
sea north of Knightstown and Bray Head, Valencia Island. 
and on the mainland about a quarter of a mile from the 
Ferry Point: Miss Delap. Locally abundant at Caragh, 
1903 (F. Bouskell) Trans. Leicester Lit. & Phil. Soc., Vol. 1X., 
1905, p.40.—V. Abundant on Beginish, one of the Blasket 
Islands (Praeger & Stelfox) Irish Nat. 1912, p. 161.— 
VI. Sparingly in a wet wood near Muckross Abbey : R.W.S. 
1889 ; on Ross Island and in the Home Park, Killarney, 
1892-1912 ; plentiful between the River Flesk and the 
railway at Woodford east of Killarney, 1894 ; plentiful in a 
wet meadow by the Gweestin River near Ballymalis bridge. 
1901 : R.W.S.—VII. In Kilcolman Abbey grounds, 1900 : 
Miss Godfrey. Abundant in Killaclohane wood near Mill- 
town and sparingly on the south side of Lough Yganavan, 
1896 ; in a meadow at Seafield, Tralee Bay, and near Bally- 
carty east of Tralee, 1892: R.W.S.—VIII. “ In a meadow 
near the ruined Abbey of Odorney, esteemed as a vulnerary 
by the country people ” (Dr. Smith) Hist. of Kerry, 1756, 
p. 380. In aswampy meadow to the east of Lixnaw canal, 
sparingly, and—IX. In several places about Ballybunnion, 
as by the coast near Leek Point and near Doon, to the north, 
and in damp sandy pastures about a mile to the south, &c., 
1902-08: R.W.S. 
From sea-level, to 650 feet in the Roughty valley (R.W.S.), 
and probably higher. 
First record in 1756: Dr. Smith, Hist. of Kerry, p. 380, 
No, 72, 
