KINAHAN ON FERNS. 67 



WEDNESDAY, MARCH 1, 1871. 



Rev. Professok Haughton, M. D., in the Chair. 



The minutes of the previous meeting having been read, compared, and 

 signed, donations announced, and thanks voted, 



G. H. Kinahan, Esq., read the following communication: — 



On Ferns observed in Iar, or West Connaught, and also in South- 



West Mayo: 



Polypodium phegopteris. — Abundant in Glan, on a sloping tract of 

 ground south of Maum Bay, or the 1ST. W. arm of Lough Corrib ; in 

 county Mayo, found in the Coom, S. W. of Dromin Chapel, and said to 

 be found at Toormakeady, west of Lough Mask. 



Polystichum aeuleatum, with varieties loiatum, and lonchitidoides 



Found in favourable situations in the vicinity of Lough Corrib, growing 

 more especially in the metamorphic limestone ; also at Glengowlagh, 

 west of Oughterard. 



Lastrea montana. — On the north and north-east slope of some of the 

 hills south of Maum Bay, and at Lenane, Killery Bay. 



Asplenium viride. — On limestone, above 1,000 feet high, on Lis- 

 soughter, and in Glenlosh ; on serpentine and steatite on Bengower, 

 one of the Twelve Pins; and on steatitic-dolomite, above 1000 feet S.W. 

 of Dromin Chapel, county Mayo. 



Asplenium adiantum nigrum. — A beautiful bushy variety found on 

 serpentine, S. W. of Glendalough Hotel ; the variety acutum not uncom- 

 mon. 



Ceterachofficinarum. — In places abundant on the carboniferous lime- 

 stone, but only locally found; on other limestone and calcareous rocks 

 rare. 



Adiantum capillus veneris. — Found on the hill N.KE. of Sheffey, 

 county Mayo. This locality is five miles away from the nearest salt 

 water (east end of Killery harbour), and is the most northern station 

 yet known in Ireland. Only a few small stools could be found. The 

 lobes of the pinnules are very deeply serrated. 



Cystopteris fragilis. — Found in two places on limestone, about 900 

 feet high, in Glan, N.W. of Oughterard. 



Botrychium lunaria. — Found on some of the drift hills near Lough 

 Corrib, and near the sea shore six miles S.W. of Louisburgh, county 

 Mayo. 



Ophioglossum vulgatum. — Growing freely in a few stations on the 

 coast of Galway Bay, in places where the soil was formed of shell sand; 

 also in a few scattered localities, limy soil. 



Lastrea dilatata. — Common, more especially the small mountain 

 variety, aspedium dumetorum. 



Atliyrium Filix-fcemina. — Not uncommon ; a short bushy variety, 



