otf Guernsey. 



On the other hand, I know of no place where the field 

 banks, and the road- side are so covered with ferns as here : I 

 think we may truly say, that for universal distribution and 

 general luxuriance, and for the number of species compared 

 with the size of the district, Guernsey will hold its own with 

 the best-known haunts of British ferns, and I think we are 

 quite justified in including it as a place which may be deno- 

 minated a Fern Paradise. 



Though they have them so constantly around them, our 

 French speaking population do not appear to have become 

 sufficiently acquainted with ferns as to distinguish between 

 ihem by special names. I can only find Langue de Bceuf for 

 the Hart's Tongue, La Foile for the Bracken, or any large 

 enough to be used as fuel ; and Capillaire for all the smaller 

 kinds, which are supposed to have medicinal properties, being 

 a remedy for coughs. 



The following is a list of the eighteen Guernsey species 

 which I have myself found; specimens of all of which can 

 still be obtained in the island : — 



1. Polypodium Vulgare— Common Polypody. 



2. Gymnogramma leptophylla — Slender Gymnogram. 



3. Polystichum angulare — Soft Prickly Shield Fern. 



4. Lastrea filix-mas — Male Fern. 



5. Lastrea Dilatata— Broad Buckler Fern. 



6. Athyrium fi lix-fcemina— Lady Fern. 



7. Asplenium rutamuraria— Wall Rue. 



8. ,, trichomanes- Common Maiden-hair Spleen- 



wort. 



9. ,, marinum— Sea Spleenwort. 



10. ,, lanceolatum — Lanceolate Spleenwort. 



11. Adiantum nigrum — Black Maiden-hair 



Spleenwort. 



12. Caterach officinarum— Scale Fern. 



13. Scolopendrium vulgare— Hart's Tongue Fern. 



