122 VIL UL3TREA. 
found only on boggy heaths. It has been found at Wes- 
tleton and Bexley near Ipswich, in Suffolk: Baw#ey 
heath near Lynn. Dersingham. Edgeneld near Holt, Frit- 
too near Yarmouth, and Surlingham Broad near Norwich 
in Norfolk ; in Huntingdonshire ; near Madely in Stafford- 
shire ; at Oxton bogs and Bolwell marshes, Nottingham- 
shire; and on Wybunbory bog, Cheshire. L. uliginosa 
has as yet been recorded only from Epping, Bawsey, Holt, 
Surlimjham. Oxton. Wybunbury. and Woolston moss 
near Warringtoo, in all bat the first in company with 
cristata. It has also been reported from Mucruss, Kfllar- 
ney. L. tpmrnlflsa is doubtless a widely distributed and 
not uncommon plant, but it has been so long confounded 
with L. dilatata, that its exact range is unknown. It 
seems to be uncommon in Wales, and is very rare in 
Scotland, the only Scotch specimens I have seen having 
been obligingly communicated from the neighbourhood of 
Brahan Castle^ Dingwall, by Sir W. C. Trevelyan. This 
plant occurs both in marshes and in moist woods. AH the 
forms occur in other parts of Europe. 
This is a free growing and easily cultivated species, and 
being of a distinct erect habit, and bearing exposure well, 
it is very suitable for damp rock-work, the two former 
varieties being especially adapted for planting in an arti- 
ficial bog at the foot of a piece of rockwork. They, how- 
ever, grow well in any other situation suitable for ferns. 
6. Lastrea dilatata, Prttl Broad prickly-toothed 
Buckler Fern. Fronds arched ovate or oblong-lanceolate 
or subtriangular, bipinnate with pinnate or pinnatifid ser- 
rated pinnules, the serratures spinose-mucronate ; scales 
of the stipes lanceolate entire ; indnsium fringed on the 
margin with stalked glands : 
[I do not think that sufficient evidence has vet been obtained to 
bring the inrolred questions which arise w to the proper rank of 
