GREEN SPLEENWORT. 
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GREEN SPLEENWORT, [half the natural size). 
Asplenium viride, Hudson. 
This is a beautiful little fern, delighting in wild hilly coun- 
tries, especially if abounding in waterfalls, and shunning the 
vicinity of man. It is found rooted firmly in the fissures of 
rocks; when sheltered, growing to a length of eight or ten 
inches, but when exposed, seldom measuring more than two. 
The following list of localities will show its range in England 
and Wales. 
Brecknockshire. — Mr. Ralfs informs me he has found it 
near Brecon, on Brecon-beacon, and on Trecastle-beacon : Mr. 
Westcombe gives me Chapel-y-Fin as a habitat: Mr. Lees ob- 
served it at the waterfall of Scwyd-yr-Henryd near Capel Col- 
bren, on the rocks below the fall, on the right hand side, where 
there is also a very old trunk of mountain-ash covered with a 
drapery of this fern. 
Caernarvonshire. — I have found it in abundance near Llyn- 
y-Cwn, Twll-du, &c. 
Cheshire. — “ Among stones and rubbish thrown out of the 
quarries at Carr-edge, Mr. Bradbury .” — Botanisfs Guide. 
Cumberland. — Mr. Winch gives Ashness gill. Borrow force, 
