IO Phillips and Praeger—The Ferns of Ulster . 
Mountain Fern. 
2. I>. ORBOPTERIS. 
Banks and mountain pastnres. Not common and xeiylocal. 
Antrim -At the base of the hill above Carrickfergus, J. Bea Glendun, 
BNFO 1879— a well-known locality, where it grows in grea pro u . 
Gb^sk, behind Ballycastle, Dr. O’Connor Glenarm Deerpa* sonth 
side of Glenariff, at Culraney north of Bnnabay Head, in Glenaan, 
near Cushendall, R. LI. P. » 
Down — Tollymore Park, Templeton, 1805-often since recorded from this 
^ station. Thomas monntain, W. H. P. In various places about New 
pi w TT P R LI P &c Luke’s mountain, and near Moneyscalp 
weft ’of Bryansford, and on the Holywood bills, B. L1.P. Very 
rare in last locality. 
Armagh —On Ferry Hill above Narrow Water, R. LI. P. . 
Deiryv— Bennedy near Dnngiven, David Moore. Cushcape near Dungiv on 
Ind on Slieve Gallion near Desertmartin, S. A. Stewart. Moyola Park 
“ cTstledawson, B.N.F.O. Mnllaghmore, H. 0. Hart. L.gnapeiste, 
Donefal^— Milroy Bay, Newman. Gap of Barnesmore W. Thompson. 
Ifflybegs, L rL Lough Eske, B. Barrington. Minting^ Charles 
Moore. Near Black Gap, T. H. Corry. Banks of Eske river, Glen river 
Lough head river, and Beelan water, at Glenveigh and Bunlinn, and 
plentiful in glens in Innishowen, H. C. Hart. Near Bnncrana, W. H. P. 
Tvrone. — Strabane Glen, W. H. P. _ all 
Leitrim. Sonth side of Glenade mountain, B. Barrington and B. P. Yowell. 
interrupta. Glendun, Co. Antrim, E. L1.P. 
revolvens. Newcastle, Co. Down, W. H. P. 
Male Fern. 
3 ’ ^ow generally admitted that this species as described by Presl 
includes three distinct forms, which are elevated to the rank of s P ec “ s ^ 
Mr. Wollaston. We append the most obvious of their characters brie y 
as possible under their several heads. fPronds 
A Propinqua-mas (Wollaston). (Filix-mas abbreviate Moore.) (Fronds 
' and pinnae concave, pinnules biserrate, colour dull pale green ; perfect y 
deciduous, texture soft; indusium embracing spore-cases, persistent, 
cntifc). Extremely rare. 
Dry hedge-banks and woods. 
Near Carngaver, Co. Down, R. LI. P., 1882. 
B rilix-mas (Presl). (Fronds and pinnae convex, pinnules serrate 
' biserrate; colour shiny pale green; texture papery; 
deciduous; indusium not embracing spore-cases, eventually evanescen , 
disrupted). Common. 
Woods, glens, roadsides, &<?, 
