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Edinburghshire. — Dr. Greville has collected it on the Pent- 
land hills. 
Fifeshire. — Found near Dunfermline by Professor Balfour. 
Forfarshire. — Mr. Watson records it as growing on Clova. 
Invernesshire. — Mr. W. Thompson has observed it at Aberar- 
der, ten miles south of Inverness; it was small near the road- 
side, but of great size and beauty at the waterfall of Nairn, in 
front of the shooting-lodge : and Mr. Watson found it on Ben 
Aulder, at Dalwhinnie, and on Ben Nevis. 
Kirkcudbrightshire.— Mr. Cruickshank informs me he finds 
it in the Dalskairth woods. 
Lanarkshire. — I saw it in the utmost profusion in the woods 
at the falls of the Clyde, also at the waterfalls themselves, Boni- 
ton, Corra Lyn and Stone Byers ; and Mr. Gourlie gives me Cm- 
therland as a locality. 
Moray. — B ev. G. Gordon, 
Perthshire. — I observed it near Tyndrum, Killin and Cal- 
lender, and about Lochs Dochart, Tay, Vennachar, Katrine and 
Achray ; Mr. Gourlie has found it on Ben Lawers ; and Mr. Wat- 
son on this mountain, at Dalnacardoch, and Lochernehead. 
Renfrewshire. — Mr. Gourlie has observed it at Gourock. 
Bosshire. — Mr. Watson found it near Kessock. 
Sutherland. — Found by Mr. Watson near the Ferry-house, 
at the east end of Loch Errboll. 
Shetland Isles. — Mr. Edmonston informs me it occurs spar- 
ingly on the North Marm, in Shetland. 
In Ireland Polypodium Phegopteris is a rare fern : I never had 
the good fortune to find it, although I searched in almost every 
county : when present it occurs in small quantities, and rarely 
attains that beautiful luxuriance which renders it so attractive 
an object in England, Wales and Scotland. 
Antrim. — Mr. W. Thompson informs me it was found by the 
late Mr. Templeton, on the banks of the Glenarve river, half a 
mile from Cushendall ; and Mr. Moore found it at several moun- 
tain rills and waterfalls in this county. 
Donegal. — Mr. Mackay says it occurs at the waterfall above 
Lough Eske, in this county. 
Down. — - Mr. Thompson informs me it was found by the late 
