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in Salcombe. A hundred paces or so after having 
passed the school a lane on the right is seen. Now 
remember — -count five gates on the right from this 
lane* still going towards Dunscombe Farm, and the 
fifth gate you must stop at — considerably short of 
the Farm. Go over or through this gate, (they say 
you must never go over a gate when you can go 
through it ) and crossing the grass field, you come 
out at the head of a lane which takes you down to 
the Sidmouth end of the Dunscombe Cliffs. At the 
end of this lane turn over the gate on the left : 
steer eastward all through this picturesque wilder- 
ness, famous for pic-nics, and descend by the edge 
of the cliff partly down towards the cottages at 
Weston-mouth, and turn in on the right to the 
steep cultivated patches of ground. You now see 
the yellow cliffs above your head. You will be 
fortunate if you are able to reach and extract a 
root or two of the fern. The specimen I give in 
the plate came from there. It grows at Budleigh- 
Salterton, and easy to get at, but this is beyond 
our limits. There is a red cliff running inland on 
the western side of the meadows of the estuary of 
the river. It grows in this low cliff near the ground. 
The best way is to go out to the Lime-kilns, and 
then turning your back on the sea, seek the spot. 
Culture. — It should seem to love iodine or a 
saline atmosphere, for it does not always thrive if 
removed from the sea air. A peaty, sandy soil suits 
it best. Its fronds attain great length when under 
a glass, or nurtured in a greenhouse* 
