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shady wood-sides, in which, the species congregate. La 
Bellardiare and Mr. Brown met with luxuriant specimens 
in New Holland ; the former described one especially as a new 
species, under the name of Ilyinenopliyllum ciiprcssiforme. 
Hooker speaks also of the Jlymenophyllum atatum, or 
Winged-stacked goldilocks, a rate plant, but hitherto im- 
perfectly understood. Ray noticed it in his Synopsis, and 
also Dillenius, as growing on dripping rocks at Belbank, 
half-a-mile from Bingley, in Yorkshire, at the well-head of 
a remarkable spring, and there Dr. Richardson discovered 
it in modern times. We cannot sufficiently deprecate the 
ruthless habit of destroying plants by tearing them from 
thsir growing places for the sake of preserving only a few 
specimens. To some such recklessness we owe, most pro- 
bably, the disappearance of the Winged-stacked goldilocks, 
or fern, from a spot, consecrated by the visits of Ray and 
Dillenius, where it grew till the year 1782, and then dis- 
appeared, according to the testimony of Hailstone, in 
"Whitaker's " Craven." The species may be readily met 
with throughout the Snowdon district, and in many parts 
of the principality of Wales, where harps were heard in 
unison with the headlong rush of waterfalls; among the 
Highlands also, in localities too numerous to mention ; and 
in Ireland, especially at Powerscourt Waterfall, and on 
^hady banks and rocks exposed to the spray of the torrent 
above Turk Cottage, Killarney, where it grows in company 
with the rare Jungermannia HutcMnsice. 
The frond is from four inches to four and a half high ; 
primary pinnae three inches long, tie upper gradually 
shorter, and these, as well as the secondary ones, are ovate- 
lanceolate, margin entire, furnished with a slender brown 
nerve or mid-rib, prominent on both sides, and running- 
down the middle, llachis winged, with a broad foliaceous 
margin. The substance of the frond is membranous, smooth, 
beautifully reticulated, of a brownish-green colour. Cap- 
sules roundish sessile, fixed by the disk, compressed brown, 
collected together near the middle of the receptacle ; the 
