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in woods, north-east of the road up Frocester hill ; and Mr. 
Lees informs me it grows in the forest of Dean, south-east of 
the rocks of New weir, on the Wje, by a path through the 
woods towards Staunton. 
Herefordshire. — Mr. Lees has observed it in great profusion 
by the side of a shady path in a wood or copse on the southern 
side of the Teme, leading from a wooden bridge over the river 
in Mr. Knight’s grounds, and not far from Downton castle ; I 
have found it near Aymestree quarry, and in immense profusion 
in Shobden-hill woods : in the latter locality it covers acres of 
ground, is of small size, and all the divisions of the frond are 
convex or convolute. 
Lancashire. — Mr. Gibson gives me Broad-bank, near Colne, 
as a locality, and has obligingly given me specimens, which are 
of the convolute form ; Mr. Wilson, Dean-church dough ; Mr. 
Finder, Marsden, near Colne, and Padiham brook ; Mr. Sidebo- 
tham, Mere-clough and Cotteril-clough ; Mr. Simpson, Lancas- 
ter ; Miss Beever, Coniston ; and Dr. Wood, Ashworth wood. 
Merionethshire. — I observed it near the base of Plinlymmon. 
Monmouthshire. — - 1 observed it in the woods near Tintern 
Abbey. 
Montgomeryshire. — Found on Craig Breidden, by the late 
Mr. J. E. Bowman. — Francis's Analysis. 
Northumberland. — Mr. Winch found it in Scott’s wood 
dene, on the Cheviots, and on rocks west of Shewing-shields ; 
Mr. Thompson observed it at the ‘ Dene ’ at Twizell, the seat 
of P. J. Selby, Esq. 
Oxfordshire. — Cqrnbury quarry, on the authority of Sib- 
thorp. — Botanists' Guide. 
Radnorshire. — Mr. Westcombe observed it at the waterfall 
of Craig-Pwll-du ; and I have several times seen it at Water- 
break-it’s-neck. 
Shropshire. — Mr. Cameron, Mr. Westcombe, Mr. Westcott, 
and several other botanists, have observed it on the Hoar Edge, 
Titterstone Clee hill ; and Mr. Westcott has found it in Whit- 
cliffe coppice, near Ludlow. 
Somersetshire. — Mr. Flower informs me he has found it in 
rocky places on the Mendip hills, also near Bristol and near Bath, 
