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Enys ; Knaresborough, by the late Mr. Clapham ; Whitbarrow, 
by Mr. Clowes ; Nettlecombe, by the late Mr. Elworthy ; and at 
Tunbridge Wells, by the late Mrs. Delves. Fronds narrow, and 
broadest at the base. Pinnae small and crenate. 
25. triangulare, Lowe (incisum-triangulare, Moore). Found, in 
1863, in County Clare by the late Mr. Stansfield. An incisumwith 
triangular pinnae. Length, 4 inches. 
26. Trogyense, Lowe. Found in Wentwood, Monmouthshire, 
by myself, in 1882. This differs from Velum in not having the 
prominent basal lobe, and in being approximate instead of imbri- 
cate. Fronds very brittle, colour a blue green. Length, 5 inches ; 
width, nearly \ inch. 
27. velum, Lowe. Found in Wentwood, by myself, in 1890. 
Frond very symmetrical, and of a blue green colour. Copiously 
soriferous. A very handsome variety. The pinnae much incised, 
and the lower basal lobe of each pinna standing out almost at 
right angles to the remainder of the pinna like a curtain, the folds 
resembling stairs. Length 4 inches, and nearly f inch wide at the 
base of the frond. 
Other varieties, viz.,bifurcum, rotundato-multifidum, Blechnoides, 
lineare, and rotundatum, have been found in the Lake district, but 
I have not seen them. 
THE FORKED SPLEENWORT. 
Asplenium SEPTENTRIONALE.— Hoffmann, 
A DIMINUTIVE fern with forked fronds and linear 
segments, unlike all others. It is evergreen, 2 or 3 
inches in length, and of a deep green colour, the 
stipes being longer than the fronds. It grows in 
fissures of rocks and between the stones of loose 
walls. Found in the Lake district near Ambleside, 
on Helvellyn, Honiston Crags, Red Screes, Crum- 
mock Water, Langdale, Scafell, Patterdale, Keswick, 
Wastwater, Borrowdale, in the vale of Newlands ; 
at Kyloe Crags, Northumberland ; Ingleborough, 
Yorkshire ; and at Culborne, near Oare Church, 
and Exmoor, Somersetshire. In Wales, near 
Llanrwst, Pass of Llanberris, Bettwys-y-Coed, Capel 
Curig, Pont-y-Pair, Llewellyn, and Llyn-y-Cwn. 
In Scotland : in Roxburghshire, Edinburghshire, 
Perthshire, and Aberdeenshire. It used to be much 
more plentiful on Arthur’s Seat, Edinburgh, and it 
is not common on Stenton Rock, near Dunkeld, 
where a few years ago I only saw a dozen plants AspleViumsepten- 
(E. J. L.). It is not found in Ireland. tnonaie. Upper 
Abroad it is a native of Scandinavia, Russia, frond, "underside 6 
Switzerland, France, Germany, Spain, Portugal, 
Italy, Belgium, Hungary, New Mexico, and Northern India. 
No varieties are known. 
Fig. 12. 
