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that in many localities where it formerly grew in abundance scarcely a plant 

 of it is to be found now : all have been wantonly destroyed by the tourist 

 and the Fern-hawker in their endeavours to distribute it among town 



Fig. 114. Asplenium marinum 

 Qs nat. size). 



gardens. The Sea Spleenwort generally grows in chinks of rocks, to the 

 sides of which it clings so firmly that it is very difficult to remove the 

 plants without injuring them. Fortunately it is a free-growing Fern which, 

 even when detached with only a few roots, readily starts into growth under 



