FE11NS AND MOSSES. 85 
curator of the Horticultural Society's Experimental Garden 
at Edinburgh. 
We shall transcribe the various localities of the Scaly- 
hart's-tongue, for the sake of young botanists who may 
either reside in their vicinities, or visit them during summer 
and autumnal rambles, prefacing our notices with the obser- 
vation that in this country it has apparently become 
naturalized in the interstices of walls and ancient buildings, 
striking its small roots into the mortar, or accumulations of 
vegetable mould, scant though they be, yet sufficing for the 
requirements of such a tiny plant. 
JEtiyland. "Yorkshire, very rare; a few fronds so 
labelled are in Herbaria." On Ragland Castle, and Tin- 
tern Abbey, in Monmouthshire ; diffused through various 
parts of Somersetshire, Devonshire and Cornwall ; in the 
former, the neighbourhood of Bath, Bristol, Wells, and 
Langport, are its favourite growing places. In Berkshire, 
Pusey, near Faringdon ; in Hampshire, the walls of the city 
of Winchester ; in Kent, Tunbridge Wells, Maidstone 
church, Swancombe church, Shorn church. Old walls in 
Hereford and Leominster reveal the same interesting plant ; 
those also of the Abbey church at Malvern ; Ludlow Castle, 
in Shropshire, inseparably associated with the Mask ofComus; 
as likewise walls in the vicinity, are occasionally varied with 
small tufts. The dry fissures of rocks, at Doveda'c, Ched- 
dar, and those of a rock beside the road between Carnarvon 
and Bangor, are believed to be the only places where it 
occurs in its natural habits. 
In Wales. Walls and rocks near Bangor, andtheneig 
bourhood of Swansea, are acknowledged localities ; as 
caves in Holyhead mountain. 
In Scotland. Dundonald and the Carse of Gowrie, ac- 
cording to Hooker. 
In Ireland. Counties Dublin, Wicklow, Kilkenny, Tip- 
perary, Cork, Kerry, Clare, and Galway. 
Roots of the Scaly-hart's -tongue are endowed with the 
