198 OSMUNDA REGALI8. 
capsules. The terminal divisions of the frond are com- 
posed entirely of such capsules, forming a compound, 
loose cluster or panicle. Each capsule is at first green, 
but becomes pale reddish-brown, veined, two-valved, 
and on a short stalk; the seeds (spores) are numerous, 
and nearly globular. 
It is not very common, and is found in wet bogs, 
woods, and hedges. 
In England it has been found at Low-gelt Bridge, 
Allowby, and Keswick, in Cumberland ; between Stone- 
bridge and Bradnoek's Marsh, near Parker's Mill, in 
Warwickshire ; at Ellesmere Lakes, Moreton Moors, 
and West Felton, in Shropshire; at Speke, between 
Crosby and Formby, and on Chat Moss, near Liver- 
pool ; Walston Moss, near Warrington, in Lan- 
cashire ; in the Isle of Man ; Chartley Moss, in 
Staffordshire; at Pottery Car, near Doncaster; near 
Leeds; near the upper mill at Bulwell, in Notting- 
hamshire; on bogs near Yarmouth, and St. Faith's, 
Newton Bogs, Norwich; in Kavanagh's Wood, Great 
Warley, near the Barracks at Little Warley, and at 
Danbury, in Essex ; near Leith Hill, and near Dorking, 
in Surrey; on Bagsbot Heath ; between Frimley village 
and Frimley Green, and on Esher Common, in Surrey ; 
at Tunb ridge, in Kent; at the corner of the Lake, 
Uckfield, in Sussex.; on the cliffs near Dawlish, near 
Chudleigh, on the banks of the Teign, and at Ivy 
Bridge, on the Erme, in Devon; on the Goodhilly 
Downs, near St. Ives, and in the mouths of old mines 
near M.arazion and Cosgarne, Cornwall ; in the Isle 
