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This singular looking fern, the AspJenium scptcntrionale 
of Smith, Hooker, Galpine, Gray, and Francis ; Acrostichum 
scptentrionale of Linnaeus, Bolton, Hudson, Lightfoot, 
Berkenhoot, known by the appropriate name of Forked 
Spleenwort, is perhaps one of our rarest ferns. It was con- 
rORKED SPLEENWORT. 
*idered for many years as peculiar to Arthur's Seat, but has 
since been gathered in Carnarvonshire, though sparingly ; 
luxuriantly on a wall by the roadside leading out of Llanrwst, 
towards Conway, exactly opposite a farm-house, and about 
a mile from Llanrwst. For the sake of botanists who desire 
to add this rare plant to their collections, we shall mention 
its localities. 
England. Northumberland, Kyloe Crags, Cumberland, 
Honiton Crags, and on rocks in the neighbourhood of Scaw 
Fell. 
TTWes. Carnarvonshire, Pwll Du, in the romantic Pass 
of Llanberris ; and on Glyder Vawr, above Llyn-y-Coon, 
very sparingly ; a mile from Llanwrst, on the road to 
