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HISTORY OF BRITISH FERNS. 
Sherard’s plant, from the Mourne Mountains, is Athyrium 
Filioc-fcemina blanched, not a variety of Asplenium Adian- 
tmn-nigrwn^ as supposed by some, or Asplenium acutum, as 
stated by others. 
Connaught. — Connemara ; Gort (on limestone), Galway, *7. R, 
Kinahan, 
Leinster. — Wicklow (var. multifidum)^ D, Moore, Louth. Dub- 
lin (on granite). King’s. Kilkenny, J, R. Kinahan, 
Munster. — Cork. Kerry ; also Mucruss, Killarney (vars. mul- 
tifidum and rheetiemn), Clare (var. multifidum')^J, R, Kinahan, 
Carthy’s Cove, Waterford. Keeper Hill, Tipperary. Lime- 
rick, J, R, Kinahan, 
The species is very common in Ireland. 
Channel Isles. — Jersey (var. multifidum and others). Guern- 
sey (var. rhceticum and other forms), G, JaeTcson, 
Bleclintiiii Spicant, Both. 
Peninsula. — Cornwall. Devonshire. Somersetshire. 
Channel. — Hampshire. Isle of Wight. Dorsetshire. Wilt- 
shire. Sussex. 
Thames. — Hertfordshire. Kent, Tunbridge (var. heterophyllum^ 
and other forms), G, B, Wollaston, Surrey. Middlesex. 
Berkshire. Oxfordshire. Essex. 
Ouse. — Suffolk. Norfolk. Cambridgeshire. Bedfordshire. 
Northamptonshire. 
Severn. — Warwickshire. Gloucestershire ; Nailsworth (fronds 
