WEISS’ SPLEENWORT. 
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t WEISS’ SPLEENWORT, {natural size), 
Asplenium germanicum, Weiss. 
Asplenium alternifolium^ Smith, Hooker, Babington. 
This is one of the rarest — perhaps the very rarest — of our 
British Ferns. It has never yet been found in England, Wales 
or Ireland ; and three Scotch localities are all that I am able 
to record. 
Fifeshire. — Sir W. J. Hooker informs us, on the authority of 
Dr. A. Dewar, that it occurs three miles from Dunfermline. 
Perthshire.-”! am indebted to Mr. Williamson of the Royal 
Botanic Garden, at Kew, for a specimen found in December, 
1843, on Stenton rocks, near Dunkeld, in this county. The lo- 
cality has previously been recorded, but the plant was supposed 
to have been extirpated many years since. 
Roxburghshire. — It appears to have been first noticed by 
Mr. Dickson, as recorded in the Linnean Transactions,* on 
‘‘ rocks in the south of Scotland.” Smith adds, “ some sunny 
rocks about two miles from Kelso on the Tweed.”f I do not 
^ Trans. Linn. Soc. ii. 290, 
t Eng. Bot. 2258. 
