BRISTLE FERN. 
315 
Mr. Andrews has obligingly furnished me with the following 
characters of the two plants. The first I will call 
Trichomanes specioswn var. Andrewsii, ^ 
(natural size). 
Trichomanes 
^ Frond lanceolate 
twice pinnated, lower pinnae distant short, 
ultimate segments of the pinnae decurrent serrated 
lobed linear acute. Rachis winged, very long. Re- 
ceptacles six times longer than the involucra. Root 
long scarcely tomentose. Habitat, moist rocky cave, 
Glouin Caragh, Kerry. 
