ASPLENIUM. 



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and near Lough Eske, on the Donegal Mountains. It has also been gathered 

 on Cader Idris, Crib-y-Ddeseil, and Snowdon, in Wales ; and in Ross-shire, in 

 Cawdor Woods, near Nairn ; at the foot of Benmore, Sutherlandshire, and 

 all over the Highlands. Fine masses of this species, with fronds upwards of 

 6in. long, are said to have been gathered in Perthshire by Mr. B. S. Williams, 



Fig. 133. Asplenium viricle, showing Habit, and (a) Barren and (b) Fertile Pinnas 

 (Habit, nat. size ; Pinnse, enlarged) 



but this is a size very unusual with the plant, whose fronds generally 

 average about Am. in length. Removal from its natural nooks is generally 

 attended with some difficulty, but when once it is established it succeeds 

 very well under the treatment recommended for the Maidenhair Spleenwort 

 (.A, Trichomanes) . 



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