THE MOUNTAIN PARSLEY FERN 
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Norway, Spain, Sweden and Switzerland. It is also an 
inhabitant of the western coast of North America. In 
England it is found in the counties of Chester, Cumberland, 
Derby, Devon (in this county only one or two plants have 
been obtained from Exmoor), Durham, Hereford, Lancaster, 
Northumberland, Salop, Somerset (Exmoor being partly in 
Devon and partly in Somerset, the few specimens of Allosorus 
crispus found on Exmoor have been referred to both counties), 
Westmoreland, Worcester, and York. In Wales it is very 
abundant in some localities. Its habitats include the 
counties of Anglesea, Carnarvon, Cardigan, Denbigh, 
Glamorgan, Merioneth, and Montgomery. It inhabits the 
Isle of Man. Its habitats in Scotland are in the following 
counties ; — Aberdeen, Argyle, Ayr, Berwick, Dumbarton, 
Dumfries, Fife, Forfar, Inverness, Kirkcudbright, Moray, 
Perth, Renfrew, Roxburgh, Ross, and Sutherland. Also in 
the Isles of Arran, Harris, Mull, and Skye. In Ireland it is 
extremely rare, a few specimens only having been gathered 
at Carrickfergus, in the county of Antrim ; at Black Head, in 
the county of Clare ; at Sleive Bignian and on the Mourne 
Mountains in Downshire, and on the Carlingford Mountain 
in the county of Louth. 
Culture. — On the open rockery, in the garden, in the 
Fern house or case, or in pots, the Parsley Fern can he 
grown under cultivation. But wherever planted it must be 
-well drained, and, in common with all rock or wall-growing 
Ferns, it wall not succeed if kept too wet at the roots. 
Hence, the perpetually moist atmosphere of a Fern case is 
not so suitable for it as a shady situation 011 the open 
rockery. The soil, which should be of peat and leaf-mould, 
in equal proportions, with sand enough to make one-fourth 
of the wdiole, should have mixed with it lumps of brick or 
soft broken stone. 
