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the wild waves of the Atlantic surge and roar. 
The churchyard contains more than one monument 
to shipwrecked and drowned sailors. One is a 
boat turned upside down, in which the poor fellows 
had attempted to escape. Another has the broken 
oars formed into a rude cross, — a romance in them- 
selves. Bound about those sad memorials of those 
“ that go down into the sea in ships” grew this 
little fern. Yet it is not a melancholy-looking 
plant, as one sees its tiny bright fronds springing 
even from the interstices of tombs. No ; it seems 
to speak of the new life and the resurrection that 
are to come, when we shall all meet in “ the haven 
where we would be.” 
The Aspleniums unrecorded in Devon are A. 
fontanum^ a small fern greatly resembling young 
plants of A. lanceolatmi^ but distinguished by its 
winged rachis ; A. mride, which is twin sister to 
A. TricJiomanes^ differing in its green stem and 
serrated pinnules ; and A, septentrionale,^ which is 
(so to speak) a blade once or twice forked. It 
might easily be mistaken for a grass, but for the 
seed. It grows about eight or nine miles from 
Lynton, towards Porlock. 
* Plate III. Fig. 3. 
