ASPLENIUM. 



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until about 1792, when it was discovered on some rocks in the South of 

 Scotland by a Mr. Dickson, who published the fact in the second volume of 

 the Linnean Society's " Transactions," that A. germmiicum was acknowledged 

 as a British plant. It has been found also on rocks on the River Tweed, 

 near Kelso, Roxburghshire ; on the Stenton Rocks, near Dunkelcl, in 

 Perthshire ; and near Dimfermline, in Fifeshire. In England it has been 



Fig. 106. Asplenium germanicum 

 (| nat. size). 



collected at Borrowdale, in Cumberland ; on Kyloe Crags, Northumberland ; 

 and in Carnarvonshire, North Wales. Sowerby, in his work on the "Ferns of 

 Great Britain," says that in 1854 two plants were found by a Mr. W. Hawker 

 on a precipice near Scawfell, and that it had also been collected near 

 Llanrwst and in the Pass of Llanberis. In all the above-named localities 

 this singular Fern was, as on the Continent, only found in small quantities, 



