170 LASTILEA OHEOl'TKRIS. 
In England it lias been gatliered at Old Foot's Well. 
Bromsgrove, in Worcestershire ; near Chapel Weardale 
and Darlington, Durham; at Cawsey Dean, near New- 
castle; at Keswick and near Lodore Waterfall, in Cum- 
berland; by the Tees; near Richmond, and in woods at 
Castle Howard, in Yorkshire ; on Coleshill Heath and 
Corley, in Warwickshire ; near Warrington ; ou Dethick 
Moor and near Hi ley, in Derbyshire ; in the Isle 
of Man; on Dalliugton Heath, near Northamp- 
ton; on the north side of Shotover Hill, in Oxford- 
shire ; on Oxtou and Eddiugley Bogs, in Nottingham- 
shire, and at Hartswell, near Farnsfield ; at Conham 
and Leigh Woods, near Bristol, in Somersetshire; 
at.Bradwell, iu Suffolk; in Sussex; on Bailey's Hill, 
between Brasted and Tunbridge, in Kent , and near 
Southampton. 
In Scotland, at Glen Isla, in Forfarshire ; in Suther- 
laudshire ; on the banks of Loch Tay ; in Aberdeen- 
shire ; and at the foot of Craig Chailleach. 
In Wales, near Wrexham, in Denbighshire ; at Llaii- 
berris and Nant Gwynedd, in Caernarvonshire. 
In Ireland, in Powerscourt Deer Park, and Waterfall, 
M angerton Mountain ; Lough Corril, in Galway ; and 
elsewhere. 
This very beautiful and easily distinguished Fern is 
first mentioned by Ray as a native of this country. He 
notices it in the Appendix to the second edition of his 
Synopsis Metkodica Stirpium Britannicarum as " a variety 
of the common Male Fern observed by Petiver on Duns- 
more Heath, near Rugby, in the county of Warwick ;" 
