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pinnules and near the midrib. The indusium is small and 
fringed with stalked glands. This fern has hitherto been 
certainly found only on the hills of Westmoreland, Lanca- 
shire, and Yorkshire ; though it is suspected to occur in 
Ireland, about Powerscourt Waterfall in Wicklow, as I 
learn from C. C. Babington, Esq., and on the Dublin 
mountains, as has been hinted to me by Mr. J. R. Kina- 
han. It is probably a distinct species. I have been 
favoured with other specimens collected at Coniston bv 
Miss Beever, who considers them identical with Mr. 
Finder's plant ; these have a much more leafy character 
than the specimens described above, as well as an irregu- 
larly jagged and crisped appearance, and they are abun- 
dantly glandular, and have very small distinct son 
covered by convex indusia. 
The variety Smithii I have described from a specimen 
sent to me by Mr. H. Shepherd of Liverpool, as being 
taken from part of the identical plant sent by Dr. Mackay 
to Sir J. E. Smith and described by him as Aspidium 
gpinulosum in the English Flora. As it quite agrees 
with that description, it would appear to be the Spike 
Island plant, there mentioned. The frond is bipinnate, 
about a foot high, including a stipes of three inches, which 
is at the base clothed with long dark-coloured scales, and 
is furnished above with a few which are small and narrow. 
The pinnae are opposite distant nearly horizontal, and but 
slightly unequal in the size of their superior and inferior 
pinnules. The pinnules are ovate-oblong obtuse, the basal 
ones pinnatifid with blunt lobes mucronately-serrated at 
the end ; these basal ones have a narrow stalk-like attach- 
ment, but the rest are more or less decurrent. The son 
form a line on each side of the midrib of the pinnules. 
This plant has some resemblance to the var. collina, and 
may possibly prove identical with it, which is the more 
probable since collina is supposed to occur in Ireland, as 
has been already mentioned. 
