in none of the localities to be very abundant; and, judging from 
our own herbarium, and the comparative paucity of samples there, 
such appears to be the case also on the Continent; yet stations 
are recorded in almost every country of Europe, from Norway 
in the west to Siberia and Altai in the east; and south to Spain, 
Portugal, and Italy. Still further east, I possess excellent spe¬ 
cimens from Kashmir, Dr. T. Thomson; from Kuna war, in deep 
clefts of rocks, at an elevation of 9000 feet, Jacquemont (Aspl. 
furcatum, Jacquem. MS.); from Gurhwal, elevation 11,000 feet; 
on the Himalaya, Strachey and Winterbottom. I have also been 
gratified in receiving it from Mr. C. Wright (n. 2122), gathered 
on a journey to New Mexico in 1851 and 1852. 
Plate 26. Fertile plants of Asplenium septentrionale , Hoffrn .,—natural size. 
Fig. 1. Fertile pinna,— magnified. 
