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ORDER FILICES. 



1372. Ceterach officinarum, Willd. (Scale Fern; Rusty 

 Back). Native. English type. Range 1. Walls and 

 crevices of rocks, mainly in the limestone districts. 



C. St. Bees, Sandwith, Mosser, and Gosforth. — (\V. Dickin- 

 son, J. Robson.) Old wall at Cleator. — (Rev. F. Addison.) 

 On Yew Crag and the banks of Aira Beck. — (Linton.) 



W. Recorded by Lawson from the old bridge at Troutbeck, 

 long since destroyed. In many places in the limestone 

 country from Kendal by way of Whitbarrow to Arnside Knot. 



L Rocks of Humphrey Head and wall at Cark. — (Dr. 

 Windsor, C. Bailey.) Old walls about Newlands. — (Miss 

 Hodgson. ) Brathay and Pull Bay, Windermere. — (J. Coward. ) 

 On a barn at Low Bank-ground, Coniston. — (Miss Beever.) 



1373. Woodsia ilvensis, Br. Native. Highland type. 

 Range 3. High slate crags. Very rare. Has been gathered 

 on Scawfell and Helvellyn by Isaac Hudhart and F. Clowes ; 

 on Dove Crag, Fairfield, Hart Crag, Scandale Fell, the Red 

 Screes, and at the head of Riggindale, Mardale, by J. Coward ; 

 and on the Hill Bell range by J. Backhouse. Recorded by 

 T. Thompson in Phytologist, vol. i. p. 331, from the walls 

 of the church at Crosby Ravensworth, which is a very unlikely 

 station. A plant from Dove Crag, Fairfield, which has been 

 referred to W. alpina, I have not seen. 



1374. Polypodium vulgare, L. (Common Polypody). 

 Native. British type. Range 1-3.. Common on walls, 

 rocks, and old trees. Ascends to the limestone pavement of 

 Whitbarrow and Hutton-Roof, to 400 yards in Great Lang- 

 dale, and noted by Watson up to 670 yards. 



1375. Polypodium Phegopteris, L. (Beech Fern). Native. 

 Scottish type. Range 1-3. Damp woods and hedge-banks. 



