Wilson’s filmy fern. 
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Dumfriesshire. — It has been found by Mr. Babington and 
Mr. Cruickshank in Girpel lane, Kirkpatrick juxta. 
Perthshire. — Mr. Gourlie and many other botanists have 
found it on Ben Lawers. 
Renfrewshire. — Mr. Gourlie has found it on rocks and hills 
above Gourock. 
Shetland Isles. — Mr. Edmonston says, I have observed it 
in one place overhanging a subalpine stream near Ska, Unst, in 
great luxuriance and abundance.” 
In Ireland this fern is much more common than in England, 
and grows with a beauty and luxuriance that I have not wit- 
nessed elsewhere : it is more generally distributed over the 
island than tunhridgense, I subjoin a few localities. 
Antrim. — Mr. W. Thompson thinks that this is the species 
noticed in Mr. Templeton’s MSS., under the name of H, tun- 
hridgense, as having been found by him in Colin glen, near 
Belfast : at the time the record was made the name tunhridgense 
was applied to both species. Mr. Templeton also found it by 
the Glenarve river, near Cushendall. 
Cork. — ^Abundant in the glens near Youghal. 
Donegal. — Mr. Templeton found a Hymenophyllum on the 
Ennishowen mountains, which Mr. W. Thompson believes to 
be this species. 
Down. — Mr. W. Thompson informs me he has collected this 
species in Tullamore park, and on the Mourne mountains. 
Fermanagh. — Mr. W. Thompson informs me that the Hon. 
J. L. Cole has found this species near Florence court. 
Galway. — Mr. Mackay has found it in Cunnemara, and I 
have seen specimens from Marm, Roundstone and Oughterard. 
Kerry. — On rocks among the Kerry mountains, and at all 
the waterfalls about Killarney in profusion ; and I almost inva- 
riably found it intermixed with tunhridgense. 
Londonderry. — Mr. Moore possesses specimens collected in 
this county. 
Wicklow. — On many of the rocky hills and waterfalls in 
this county, at Glendalough, Hermitage glen, and Powerscourt 
waterfall. 
The range of H. Wilsoni appears coextensive with that of 
